A great scandal has been unleashed in the last hours following Fifa made a substantial turn in the case of soccer player Byron Castillo and that, in this way, the presence of the Ecuadorian National Team in the Qatar 2022 world event was put in danger.
The announcement was made in the early hours of last Wednesday, where it was indicated “to open disciplinary procedures in relation to the possible breach of Byron David Castillo Segura”, following the accusation of the Federation of Chile for alleged false nationality.
This sports entity filed a complaint with FIFA once morest its counterpart in Ecuador for the “use of birth certificate, false declaration of age and nationality” of the player Byron Castillo, who would have been born in Colombia.
Given this new revelation by the highest soccer regulator, in another country totally oblivious to this mess, they are waiting for what may happen. This is Italy, a European team that might not advance to the orbital event following being eliminated in the playoffs at the hands of North Macedonia.
A great stir has been generated by the possible presence of the blue in Qatar, following the Calciomercato portal reported that if Ecuador’s expulsion from the World Cup is confirmed, it is not defined that Chile would be the country to replace it, and for the Italian press they would have to be the ones to occupy that place.
“A sanction of this type would lead Fifa to have to choose a replacement ex officio and, although Chile’s protest is aimed at officially promoting its team to the World Cup without going through the day of playoffs scheduled for June (and that the presence of Peru would be confirmed), the election might be different because the Disciplinary Commission might simply promote the highest-ranking Federation that is left out of the qualifiers today, “they assured.
“Today the team that did not qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup highest in the ranking it is Italy, which looks at the evolution of history as an interested spectator”, pointed out this medium.
For now, Fifa will have some time to define this controversial case. If a sanction was given to Ecuador, the table of positions would change, since the tricolor would remain in the last box following losing 13 points and the one that would rise to fourth position would be Chile, one of the rivals with whom this player was present.
What do they say from Ecuador?
Given this controversy, suspicions of a possible elimination of Ecuador began to gain strength. To talk regarding it, the lawyer César Vásconez, who belongs to the Ecuadorian Football Federation, assured in a chat with Chile’s ‘D13’ that the team “doesn’t run the risk of missing out on the World Cup. Qatar is close, the Fifa disciplinary commission can resolve in regarding two months in the first instance. That is appealable before Fifa itself, which may take another two months. And then he resorts to the TAS, which takes another eight months.”
“An executed sentence that confirms that the player is Ecuadorian. If it is determined that the player falsified documents, I would understand that Fifa would have to sanction the player, not the federation,” added the lawyer.