CAF teams are always at a disadvantage, because many of their top players migrate to UEFA nations. AFC doesn't have any such disadvantage. The only reason why the AFC teams are not performing is because of lack of quality in domestic leagues. The best AFC players opt to participate in European leagues such as EPL, rather than playing at home. Two decades back Japan even tried the idea of importing a few players from Brazil and giving them the local citizenship. They thought that it will improve the quality of the local game. But didn't worked out that well.
Improving quality is long term project which need patience and investment even Japan and few more Asian countries now can afford this but still they are not doing things like this even India is currently stable and with the advantage of big market they can go ahead with this project which can give them good success, and they could be good in quality but cricket crazy nation is having nothing special for this all and fa behind I check their rating is almost nearly 90 which is surely matter of shame.Bringing foreign players is surely never been good idea they need to go ahead with grass root specially good competitions in school level which can bring good prospect and quality players which will help them for increasing quality and better system still I am hopeful about few countries in Asia they can do better, and we can improve our quality but as already mentioned it's long term job.
