Zurich, -FIFA will decide next month 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
March 3, Japan’s Kyodo news agency said.

A FIFA spokesman told Reuters that the meeting had been scheduled and that 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 its
four-and-a-half places, in Brazil.

Australia, North Korea, South Korea and Japan represented Asia 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 wants its quota increased to four direct places.

CONCACAF had three guaranteed spots in South Africa last year while Costa Rica lost to Uruguay in a playoff for another place.

South America, which had four-and-a-half places in South Africa, is hopeful of maintaining its quota with Brazil, who qualify automatically as hosts, being an additional team for the
region.

Africa had six teams at the 2010 World Cup, including South Africa, the hosts, while Europe had 13 teams at the 2010 World Cup.(Reuters/NAN)