Andrés Holguín, Ecuadorian national team lawyer Byron Castillo, assured this Monday that the audio that Chile has used in its desire to eliminate Ecuador from the World Cup in Qatar has no effect, as he said it is a piece that has already been discarded in the process.
“The audio that is circulating is nothing new. Furthermore, a constitutional judge did not consider it as evidence as it could not be certified that it came from Castillo,” Holguín said Monday during an interview with a Quito radio station.
In addition, the defense lawyer of the León club from Mexico added that “in the FIFA trial this audio cannot be presented as evidence, as it was not presented at first instance or on appeal, this does not affect anything”, he insisted.
Holguín has assured that it is a desperate act of Chile and the legal body of its Football Association. “This audio doesn’t change anything. That country wants to enter the World Cup through the back door,” the lawyer said wryly.
The first FIFA resolution prior to the complaint filed by the National Professional Football Association of Chile (ANFP) agreed with Ecuador and its classification as the fourth best team in South American qualifiers, although it later filed an appeal which will be defined on Thursday next. .
The British tabloid “Daily Mail” cataloged the audio Monday as an “extraordinary revelation” and assured that Castillo “clearly states that he was born in 1995, not 1998, as his Ecuadorian birth certificate says.”
Similarly, the British newspaper said the FEF had ruled in 2019 that Castillo was an Ecuadorian citizen, although the tabloid later assured that Castillo “admitted using a fake passport and the Ecuadorian Federation hid it.”
The FEF has announced that it has been summoned to the hearing convened by FIFA and that the player has also been summoned, given the complaint of the ANFP, which was joined by Peru, which in the playoff phase was eliminated by Australia, while Chile was in seventh place under Colombia.
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