By October 2010, world governing body FIFA hopes to make the system compulsory, which means transfers cannot take place unless MAs sign up.

Juan Martin is Client Services Co-ordinator for FIFA Transfer Matching System (TMS) GmbH, the company assigned to development and implement the system.

Martin has been spending the past two days teaching selected Member Associations in Asia how the system works.

“We have been going around the world teaching Member Associations how it works,” Martin told the-afc.com.

“Now we are in Asia showing MAs who may not be among the bigger football nations.”

Martin said the system, at its simplest, basically requires MAs to log on to a website and enter transfer details.

The idea for TMS was started after the FIFA Congress in Marrakech in 2005. FIFA is determined to ensure the money involved in player transfers is clean and that the transactions are not a ruse for other purposes.

Martin and his colleague Amauri De Buijn have recently been to the Middle East to show MAs in the region the new system.

On Tuesday, they held a workshop for representatives from Cambodia, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand.