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Oceania (OFC): 0.5 place, contested by 4 teams (including Israel and Chinese Taipei).
Each confederation — the AFC (Asia), CAF (Africa), CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean), CONMEBOL (South America), OFC (Oceania), and UEFA (Europe) — was allocated a certain number of the 16 places at the tournament.
Following his impressive showing at the 2011 Pacific Games and the 2012 OFC Nations Cup, in July 2012 the Oceania Football Confederation announced that Kaï had won the men's Oceania Footballer of the Year award, beating fellow nine fellow nominees including New Zealand's Shane Smeltz and Chris Wood, and Jean Kaltack of Vanuatu.
Eddy Etaeta played international football for the Tahiti national team and participated in two OFC zone qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup.
It is contested by the winners of each of the six confederation championships (CAF, CONMEBOL, UEFA, AFC, OFC, CONCACAF) the winner of the world cup and the host country.