Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
The Afro - Asian Cup for national teams was an intercontinental football competition for national teams between the continental champions of Africa and Asia, which was held irregularly 1978-2007. Participants were alternately, the current winner of the Asia Championship or winning the Asian Games in football for Africa of the current African Football Champion and Asia. The competition was the Pedant on national level for Afro - Asia Cup at club level. In general, the competition in return game was, three times in a game, decided and carried out in the following year of the qualifying competitions. He is next to the Artemio Franchi Cup as one of the forerunners of the King Fahd Cup and later FIFA Confederations Cup. After the establishment of this comprehensive all Continents competition, the competition lost more and more important. Because of a dispute between the football associations in Africa and Asia because of the vote of the Asian representatives in favor of the 2006 World Cup in Germany, he was not discharged or canceled at the beginning of the millennium. From the Asian side was trying to create a replacement to the 2001 inaugural played Asia -Oceania Cup for national teams. The discharge in 2007 was a unique attempt to revive the competition again.