US Soccer president Sunil Gulati has revealed that CONCACAF want a fourth berth for World Cup qualification.
At present, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football has access to three full spots for the FIFA tournament with a fourth team to participate in a playoff with the winner of Oceania.
After being elected onto the FIFA Executive Committee as a CONCACAF representative, Gulati said that it was certainly a plan of the federations to go after a full fourth berth rather than three-and-a-half spots which they hold at present.
"Is there a push for that? The answer is yes. We've made that very clear. Obviously it won't apply for this World Cup," he said in relation to Brazil 2014.
"I think, certainly, the ability to get a fourth World Cup spot will depend partly on what happens in Brazil. If our teams are successful, that increases the likelihood of that happening. It's one of those situations that is very much a zero sum game because the half spot has to come from somewhere.
"With the next World Cup being in a European country, Brazil will be giving up that full spot, but will UEFA be saying, 'Okay, it's Russia plus the full number of spots we've had in the past.' I don't' know.
"It's a little bit early for that and it's certainly not independent of the performance of the CONCACAF teams next summer in Brazil."
The current standings of CONCACAF's hexagonal group sees Panama at the top of the six ahead of Costa Rica, the USA, Honduras, Mexico and Jamaica after three fixtures.
