Ecuador confronted claims they handled an ineligible player during qualifying
Ecuador will keep their spot at the current year's Qatar World Cup after football administering body FIFA said it had shut its case into claims from Chile that their South American opponents had handled an ineligible player during qualifying.
Chilean football managers professed to have proof that safeguard Byron Castillo - who played in eight qualifiers for Ecuador - was really Colombian.
Assuming FIFA had viewed that as the case, Ecuador would have lost their place at the Qatar show-stopper by relinquishing all the matches Castillo had played, permitting Chile to move above them into fourth spot in the CONMEBOL qualifying table and have their spot at the competition.
In an explanation Friday, FIFA said its examinations had been finished up for Ecuador - however noticed that Chile could pursue the choice.
"In the wake of dissecting the entries of every interested individual and taking into account all components brought before it, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee has chosen to close the procedures started against the FEF [Ecuadorian Football Federation]," read the message.
Ecuador will inhale a murmur of help as they presently appear to be set to arrange in Qatar when the activity starts off in November.
The Ecuadorians have been attracted Group An at the competition close by has Qatar, Senegal, and the Netherlands, and will make what is their fourth World Cup appearance in their set of experiences.
The charges against Castillo asserted that he had distorted archives to say that he was brought into the world in Ecuador in 1998 - as opposed to in Colombia in 1995 - and that the player had utilized fashioned data to express his qualification to play for Ecuador.
Lawful agents for Chile had contended that Ecuador merited "the most extreme approval" for the supposed bad behavior - despite the fact that FEF president Francisco Egas expressed victoriously on Friday that "wearing equity has been finished."
"We generally realized we were on the right side, we should go Ecuador!" tweeted Egas, sharing a letter from FIFA educating regarding its choice.
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