Byron Castillo, the man of controversy. Photo: FRANKLIN JACOME / POOL / AFP.
FIFA has proclaimed itself about the controversy that has arisen around the player Byron Castillo. As announced by Switzerland, the parent company of world football has decided not to give rise to the claim of the Chilean Federation and has ratified the presence of the Ecuadorian national team at the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The battle at the desks began on May 5, 37 days after the last date of the South American qualifiers was played. That day, the National Association of Professional Football of Chile (ANFP) sued Castillo and the Ecuadorian Football Association (FEF) before the FIFA Disciplinary Commission for allegedly “falsifying the player’s birth certificate, age and nationality certificate”.
Based on this, the ANFP affirmed it the corresponding points will be awarded to your selected one to the two matches in which he was protagonist against the Ecuadorians for the Qualifiers and in which Castillo participated: on 5 September 2021 they drew 0-0 in Quito and on 16 November of that year the team led by Gustavo Alfaro won 2-0 in Santiago.
With those points the Chilean national team would have earned their place in the World Cup event in the Middle East, where Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay had already been confirmed by Conmebol, awaiting the playoff between Peru and Australia, which will take place this Monday.
This Friday, through a press release, the body chaired by Gianni Infantino rejected the Chilean submission at the same time it decided to close the disciplinary proceedings initiated against the Ecuadorian Football Federation.
The text was signed by Anin Yeboah, vice president of the disciplinary commission of FIFA.
In turn, the text shared by FIFA clarifies that “the judicial bodies of FIFA will issue their verdict and notify the parties without including the justification”, as can be read.
The FIFA ruling, which rejects Chile’s request.
The text also clarifies that if one of the parties involved wishes to have a justification for the sentence, this must be elaborated in writing within 10 days through the secretariat of the FIFA Disciplinary Commission. Otherwise, “the decision will be considered final and binding and it will be assumed that the party has renounced the appeal”, the press release closes.
In Chile they were not optimistic about the sentence and it has already emerged that the Federation intends to appeal the sentence, extending the end of the dispute for at least another 30 days, with the start date of the World Cup hanging over the calendar.
The FIFA press release
“The FIFA Disciplinary Commission has taken a decision on the possible violation by Byron David Castillo Segura of the call-up criteria to participate with the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) national team in eight qualifying matches, corresponding to the preliminary phase of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. .
After analyzing all the documentation received from the parties, the FIFA Disciplinary Commission has decided to close the disciplinary proceedings initiated against the FEF.
The decision of the FIFA Disciplinary Commission was notified today to the interested parties. Under the FIFA Disciplinary Code, the parties have ten days to request the reasoned decision, which, if requested, would be published on legal.fifa.com. This decision can be challenged before the FIFA Appeals Committee. “
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Source: Clarin
