This follows FIFA's stunning backflip on its decision to allow a team from the South Pacific region direct entry to the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.

World soccer's governing body FIFA announced at a meeting in Paris on Saturday that its December 2002 decision to give Oceania a direct path to the World Cup was overturned.

Instead, the South American confederation would regain an extra half qualifying spot with the top Oceania team expected to battle its way through a qualification path as it has done for three decades.

An outraged Farina said Australia should forget about Oceania and look to join the Asian Football Confederation because FIFA showed its disdain for the region.

"What's the point of having an Oceania confederation," Farina asked.

"They've got no respect for the region."

Farina said the decision was clearly a political one to appease the powerful South American lobby seething at originally losing a World Cup finals spot to Oceania.

"It's a disgrace. It's a political decision," Farina said. "FIFA should tear up its motto 'for the good of the game' and throw it out the window."

The FIFA executive voted 22-1 in favour of handing Oceania's extra half spot back to South America and cited as reasons the disarray in Soccer Australia (SA) and Oceania's poor on-field performance indicated by New Zealand's showing at the current Confederations Cup in France.

The OFC is expected to meet in the next week to discuss the way forward with president Basil Scarsella saying the aim would now be to secure the best possible qualifying path for the region.

He was hoping FIFA may agree to a four-way play-off series with the other confederations with extra half spots -- South America, Asia and North/Central America.

The top two teams in that series would then make the World Cup finals.