Asia's four qualifiers are also now known: Iran, Japan, Korea Republic and Saudi Arabia. A 0-0 home draw with Uzbekistan paved the way for Bahrain to progress to the November playoff against a CONCACAF side for a place at the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany.
The appeal of World Cup Soccer ensures vast numbers of people around the world disregard their local time zones to tune into games from Germany morning, noon and night.
And for fans in Asia, who are a good few hours ahead of Europe, there is an added incentive to sit up bleary-eyed in front of their television sets. After all, the FIFA World Cup is home to the stars of the strongest Asian national teams and with eight months to go before Germany 2006, tuning into the action from the old continent is the surest way to monitor the form of players on whose shoulders so many hopes hang.
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