Hey, New Zealand football fans, are you jealous? If you've been watching the Asian Cup from Australia this week you should be.
Sixteen of the best teams from the Asian Football Confederation are competing to be the champions of Asia, and our All Whites should be there.
Problem is New Zealand Football is stuck in the backwater that is the Oceania Football Confederation. World football is divided into six mismatched confederations, with Oceania the weakest.
Calls for New Zealand to join the Asian confederation are not new but with the Cup in progress, what better time to give the idea some sunlight again? It is now almost impossible to argue against the merits of the switch.
The pros are endless. Money from television rights, access to better opposition and more meaningful games throughout the world cup qualification cycle could come if we join Asia.
Being part of the Asian confederation should help us get more regular games against Australia too. We have played them just three times in the last decade.
There's a school of thought that joining Asia would give the All Whites a tougher road to the world cup. Well, good.
More games against a higher standard of opposition is needed. Australia left Oceania for Asia in 2006 and have qualified for every men's world cup since. It worked for them. And the level of football would not be beyond the All Whites. Asia's top 10 sides sit between 51 and 100 in the world rankings - space New Zealand has occupied in the past.
Oceania members' rankings on the other hand make for poor reading. New Zealand are ranked 134th and the remaining teams sit between there and 200th.
The All Whites would sit 21st in Asia at the moment but there's little doubt they could handle the likes of Tajikistan, Vietnam and the Maldives (all above NZ), especially with regular Asian football.
Then it would be about improving and gunning for one of the four or five spots offered to Asian teams for the Fifa World Cup.
Meanwhile, the Football Ferns' world ranking of 19 puts them 114 places ahead of their nearest Oceania rival. No doubt that luxury is getting them football at world tournaments but even in shifting to Asia the Football Ferns would sit fifth at the moment. Surely the stronger competition would be healthy.
Money is also worth considering and like it not, money drives success in football, just ask fans of Chelsea and Manchester City.
Granted, international football is not so affected, but placing New Zealand Football in line with Asia and its fast-emerging economies must have positive financial impact somehow, be it through sponsorship or TV.
Then there's the Wellington Phoenix. Our only professional club must also benefit from a move to Asia.
Currently in the awkward position of being an Oceania-based team in an Asian Football Confederation competition, they can't compete in either confederation's champions league.
If the Nix finish this A-league season where they sit now they could "qualify" for the big show, but be ineligible to compete.
Whether Fifa would back the move or the Asian confederation would want New Zealand is another question and there would be flow-on effects to be considered too.
It's hard to disrespect the remaining Oceania sides, given the All Whites couldn't even make the final of the last Oceania Football Confederation Nations, but the truth is New Zealand are a class above the rest at all levels of football and a move to Asia would leave Oceania with 10 teams who are all minnows.
There's much debate to be had before anything changes but, if anything, the Asian confederation's own motto perfectly sums up the situation in four words.
"The future is Asia."