In danger of expulsion from the World Cup: new evidence in the case of an Ecuadorian player

Byron Castillo admitted that he used a fake passport and the Ecuadorian association plastered it for him.

According to the evidence, the actor assumed a new identity and moved from Colombia.

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12/09/2022

Monday, September 12, 2022, 9:36 p.m

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Last Thursday, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee announced that the case regarding the defender of the Ecuadorian national team, who was suspected together with the Ecuadorian association of forging documents and illegally sharing him, when the suspicion is that the player is originally from Colombia, was closed due to lack of guilt. Tonight (Monday), new evidence concerning this case was revealed which could reopen it and lead to the expulsion of Ecuador from the World Cup, two months before the opening whistle. In the

recording published this evening, an interview of Castillo during the investigations four years ago was heard in which he admits that he was born in 1995 and not in 1998 as his passport indicates. In addition, his name is incorrect And as it originally appeared on his passport in Colombia, where he is suspected to have originally come from. The evidence from the player's mouth says that he left Colombia to develop his football career at a young age and that an Ecuadorian businessman helped him create a new identity.

Will the case be reopened?

Byron Castillo (Photo: GettyImages, Franklin Jacome)

The first complaint submitted to FIFA regarding the identity of the player came from the Chilean association, whose national team did not qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The punishment that Ecuador faces, if the player is found guilty, is the deduction of points from the qualifying stage, which will put Chile in the World Cup at its expense To

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evidence from recent years were added fake passport photos, the recordings in question, a cover-up by the association in Ecuador and falsification of various identities of the player. Now, it seems that there is a possibility that the case will be reopened, two months before the opening whistle of the biggest tournament in the world and before the opening match between the hosts Qatar and Ecuador, who is suspected of covering up a case Castillo.

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