By: EFE Updated 14 Nov 2022, 14: 00 pm EST
Byron Castillo will not be at the World Cup in Qatar 2022 with the national team Ecuador, as anticipated this Friday by the Ecuadorian ambassador to Qatar, Pascual Del Cioppo, who regretted this decision after the controversy over the origin of the player and the sanction imposed by the Court of Sports Arbitration (TAS).
“Unfortunately Byron Castillo is not coming. It would be the finishing touch for Byron to come and score a goal, but unfortunately, the news we have is that he is not coming”, Del Cioppo stated in an interview on the television program “ Impact Facts”.
According to the diplomat, “it is a decision that the Federation has taken, most likely to avoid future problems” with the Mexican Lion player, protagonist of a battle in the offices between Ecuador, Chile and Peru over the authenticity of the documents with which he was registered as Ecuadorian .
The Ecuadorian national team will announce its squad list on Monday 14 of November in which Byron Castillo is expected to be absent.
In the last few hours, the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) has made inquiries to determine if Castillo is eligible by the coach, the Argentine Gustavo Alfaro, to play the World Cup after the resolution of the CAS.
The highest sports arbitration authority confirmed on Tuesday the participation of Ecuador in Qatar 2022, due to the demand of Chile and Peru to sanction the Tricolor with their disqualification for the alleged improper alignment of Castillo in eight games of the South American qualifiers for the World Cup.
The lawsuit initially filed by Chile claimed that Castillo was born in Tumaco (Colombia) and was registered in Ecuador as an Ecuadorian with a supposedly false birth certificate, despite the fact that in 2021 a judge had validated those documents and ordered that he be registered as born in Ecuador .
Although FIFA twice dismissed Chile’s lawsuit, which was later joined by Peru, the CAS considered that Castillo had legal documents at the time he started playing with the Ecuadorian team, but that these were processed and validated judicially with false information.
By virtue of this irregularity, the CAS decided to sanction Ecuador with the loss of three points for the next South American qualifiers for the World Cup of 2026.
The Ecuadorian team is drawn in Group A of the Qatar World Cup 2022, along with the Netherlands, Senegal and the host Qatar , with which he will play the opening match of the tournament next Sunday 20 in November.
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