The joint ASEAN Football
World Cup bid looks alive again, despite fits and starts., with the
regional bloc initiating a feasibility study. I’ve posted on this topic several times, most
recently here,
and I still think an ASEAN World Cup would bring many benefits for the
region. Of course, one question that should
be resolved is which countries would get the automatic World Cup finalist slot(s):
that’s quite important because no ASEAN country has ever made the finals (Indonesia
participated in 1938 as a Dutch colony).