Why Chile is Trying to Get Ecuador
DISQUALIFIED from the World Cup in Qatar
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like Couture impressed greatly in Commonwealth qualifying with their young Squad
there's an ongoing battle between Ecuador and Chile as they believe that one of
the players of this Ecuador side was actually ineligible to represent the country
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book qualifying is crazy I mean the quality of teams that you have concentrated
into a single qualification League basically of just 10 teams all fighting for
one of four direct qualification spots while the fifth place team plays an
inter-confederation playoff I mean it gets hectic and there is always a notable
side that doesn't make the cut just look at this rendition standings Chile and
Colombia didn't even make it into the top five those are big names every single
one of your 18 matches counts in qualification and Chile have built a
reputation now for fighting the authorities when they feel like another team
has had an unfair Advantage when it comes to the registration of their players
well it's seen as an unfair advantage in some cases or Chile have just become
the narcs of convey ball feds back during the 2018 World Cup qualification
campaign Chile put in a petition against a Bolivian player named Nelson Cabrera
who was born in Paraguay grew up in Paraguay and received Bolivian citizenship
but hadn't met the requisite amount of time to be living in Bolivia in order to
meet FIFA's requirements of having lived in a country for five years before representing
their national team you'll want to remember this for later by the way it's huge
so given Cabrera appeared as a substitute regularly in Bolivia's 2018
qualification campaign after Chile disputed this with the powers that be the
matches that Cabrera had appeared in were given as three nil wins to the opponents
of Bolivia Chile's nil nil draw was turned into a three-nil win but it also
benefit Peru a lot as they had a two-no loss reverted into a three-nil win now
what's funny about that situation in particular and to sort of schadenfreude
kind of way at least Chile's dispute actually benefit Peru more so than
themselves as it put Peru into a playoff spot while Chile finished find them
well Chile and Peru are at it again mostly Chile as they now look to tackle
Ecuador for a similar reason Ecuador has really impressed the world well if the
world isn't paying attention yet they have at least really impressed in South
America with a young team comprised of incredibly talented players they storm
to a fourth place finish to directly qualify for the 2022 World Cup ahead of
Peru in fifth again in Colombia in sixth Chile they're even worse than last
time as the 2015 and 16 South American Champions have failed to qualify for the
World Cup yet again they were in seventh but they're gonna try to get there on
a technicality still as they are now targeting a player that they believe was
ineligible for Ecuador that player being Byron Castillo Who currently plays for
Club Leon in Mexico Castillo appeared in eight matches for Ecuador during their
qualifications cycle twice versus Chile which is important but he has been the
subject of a bit of controversy for some time now citizenship controversy that
is maybe the most boring kind of controversy back in 2018 an internal
investigation conducted by Ecuador's Football Federation F looked into
Castillo's Ecuadorian citizenship and discrepancies regarding both his real
name and age and birthplace now the daily males Matt Hughes managed to get his
hands on some evidence from the 2018 investigation by the fef which has now
been at the center of Chile's appeal surrounding Byron Castillo I've linked to
Hugh's article below if you want to look at all of the evidence for yourself during
the 2018 internal investigation from the fef an interview was conducted with
Castillo in which he explained everything Castile was actually born in Colombia
in 1995 just across the border from Ecuador in a city called tumako as mentioned
on his Colombian birth certificate as you can see here however Castillo also
has an Ecuadorian birth certificate and that he wasn't born in 95 but in 98.
there is evidence to support this including the audio of Castile explaining
everything to the internal investigators still explains what his real name is versus
what is written on his Ecuadorian birth certificate as well as his real birth
year who helped him to organize all of the Ecuadorian papers Etc on top of this
Chile also have images from the official fef investigation which gives a
detailed breakdown of Castillo's situation and evidence and the logic behind
their ruling the ruling from the lead investigator for fef being that there are
many many irregularities that need to be looked at however fef didn't seem to
take any sort of action in order to sort this out on top of this the Chile AFA
have ensured that this birth certificates for Castillo were verified as his
Colombian birth certificate was verified by the national birth registry of
Colombia while his Ecuadorian birth certificate was in fact not verified on top
of this as Hughes writes in addition the signature of his father herrenson Jose
Castillo in the Ecuadorian document does not correspond to the signature in the
Colombian document in 2018 a report from the general director of the Civil
register in Ecuador declared that Castillo's Ecuadorian birth certificate did
not exist in its internal records and concluded it was false and so with all of
this evidence what's happened regarding Chile's appeal to FIFA the first
hearing happened back in June of this year and the ruling for FIFA's disciplinary
committee was that Castillo's situation was not one that is not necessarily in
breach of any of FIFA's rule surrounding players representing a country that
they weren't born in remember for FIFA all you need is to have lived in a
country for a minimum of five years and to have citizenship of said country in
order to represent them at the international level this was repeated by the
FIFA appeals Committee in mid-september of 2022 and thus there seems to be no issues
with Castillo representing Ecuador's national team in FIFA's eyes FIFA said
that they had closed proceedings against Ecuador and that they quote deemed
that on the basis of the documents presented the player was to be considered a
holding permanent Ecuadorian nationality in accordance with the country's legal
statutes despite having their case and their appeal turned down by FIFA this
isn't necessarily the end of the road for chile and Ecuador is leaning on
heavily would be this the fact that Ecuador's own Football Federation had an
internal investigation that pointed out plenty of irregularities in Castillo's documentation
from his real name to his birth date and Ecuador didn't do anything about it
and tried to cover it up why I think from their point of view he had lived in
Ecuador for the requisite amount of time in order to get permanent residency or
citizenship and thus represent the country and so no further action was taken Chile
would argue that further action should have been taken as he has a verified
Colombian birth certificate but Ecuador's civil office has not verified his
Ecuadorian birth certificate and so if his citizenship was awarded on inaccurate
or knowingly falsified documents even if he has lived there for a long time his
documents are in fact inaccurate or false themselves therefore Chile is now
taking this case to the court of arbitration for sport as they believe they
have plenty of legal footing in order to win this case and potentially replace
Ecuador at the 2022 World Cup however the resistance from FIFA is strong as
they are already selling thousands of tickets to Ecuador supporters and their
presence of the World Cup is already assumed in the eyes of FIFA I mean there
are just eight weeks to go until the tournament kicks off and who plays that
first match against the host Qatar Ecuador of course so Chile's General
Secretary of the Football Federation Jorge Jung has said quote the Chilean fa
confirms it will be appealing the decision to the court of iteration for sport
as soon as it is received the full written reasons for the decision from FIFA
typically any matters that involve hearings and Court are long and drawn out
processes but Cas has the ability to conduct a rush hearing within the next few
weeks and if it goes out too late expects it to that will be a massive headache
for FIFA with less than two months until the World Cup kicks off in Qatar it
will be yet another difficult moment for FIFA to get over and what has been a
tournament known for controversy even before a ball has been kicked so guys
definitely keep an eye out for this news if something big comes out from the
court of arbitration from sport then I will of course have a video update for you
we'll see what happens here man I can see it going in either direction anyways
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