FIFA will decide next month on the prickly question of how many places each continent will be allocated at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, a member of the executive committee was reported as saying on Sunday.
Junji Ogura said the matter would be debated and decided at the next FIFA executive committee meeting in Zurich on March 2 and 3, Japan's Kyodo news agency said. A FIFA spokesman told Reuters the meeting had been scheduled and said the agenda would be confirmed in the next two or three days.
The draw for the 2014 qualifying competition is due to be made in Rio de Janeiro on July 30.
Asia Football Confederation president Mohammad Bin Hammam said last month that Asia would not agree to anything less than the four-and-a-half places it has in Brazil.
Australia, North Korea, South Korea and Japan represented Asian in 2010 while Bahrain lost in a playoff to New Zealand, winners of the Oceania qualifying tournament.
Jack Warner, president of the CONCACAF federation representing North and Central America and the Caribbean, has already said that his region want their quota increased to four direct places.
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