HONG KONG: An Asian leader of troubled FIFA looks a very real prospect in 2016 after a year in which the world’s most populous continent took a bigger role in the world’s most popular game.

Although Asia is yet to make its mark on the pitch, the region’s political and economic clout made itself felt at European clubs and the Zurich-based world body in 2015.

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