Ecuador face being kicked out of World Cup
The Daily Mail has revealed new evidence that the player altered his documents to represent Ecuador in the World Cup.
The Byron Castillo case is about to take a 180-degree turn, after the Daily Mail newspaper published evidence that showed that the player falsified his papers to represent the Ecuador national team.
The British tabloid has published an interview in full from 2018. The recording comes from a formal interview conducted by the head of the FEF’s Investigative Commission with Castillo in 2018. In another development Sportsmail published a letter outlining the conclusions of the Investigative Commission, which were delivered to the FEF’s president and Disciplinary Commission in December 2018.
When asked “when was he born?”, he replied “in 95″. Then they questioned him about the year of his identity card and he replied that it was registered in “98″. He also admitted that his real name is “Bayron Javier Castillo Segura” when in Ecuador he is registered as Byron David Castillo Segura.
Journalist Matt Hughes, sports editor of the media outlet that carried out the report, said that “Ecuador faces expulsion from the World Cup as new evidence of fake passports, multiple identities and an apparent cover-up is revealed... with audio and documents confirming that Byron Castillo was BORN in Colombia”.
On 15 September, the virtual appeal hearing of the Castillo case will take place following a new complaint from Chile to FIFA. However, the player will be absent. “He has no legal obligation to appear. In a trial, if my witnesses decide not to go, I can’t force them,” his lawyer Andrés Holguín told radio La Redonda.