El Comercio was able to confirm, with sources from the FPFthe new position on the case Byron Castillo. The representatives of the peruvian national team They ask that the Ecuadorian team be excluded and this be replaced by the white and red team. For their part, the representatives of Chile request that the CAS determine that Byron was not an eligible player.
The request of the peruvian national team and Chile was rejected by FIFA, in its two instances, and both teams resorted to the TAS, the last instance in these cases. The claim is made less than 2 months from the start of the world Cup.
“The appeal filed by the FPF is directed once morest the FEF and FIFA. the FPF requests that Ecuador be excluded from the World Cup and be replaced by Peru, which was the best placed team in the table following Ecuador”, indicated in the document.
Andrés Holguín, lawyer for Byron Castillo, indicated (when the claim was in the second instance in FIFA) that if Ecuador is disqualified, Peru should take its place: “I do not see that FIFA manages to put Chile in the position of Ecuador, because Peru has to go up, which would have to go directly to the World Cup. Colombia would go to the playoffs. But would the Aussies have to play once more?.
Eduardo Carlezzo, a lawyer from Chile, noted: “I have never seen in all my life as a lawyer an injustice like this. There is an enormous amount of documents that, by themselves, prove without a doubt that the player was born in Colombia. In addition to that, everyone heard his confession, given during an official investigation carried out by the Ecuadorian Federation itself “.
