Players from Ecuador make fun of Chile after claim filed with FIFA: “What group are they in?”

After the lawsuit filed with FIFA by the Chilean National Association of Professional Football (ANFP) against the Byron Castillo and the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF). The soccer players of the ‘Tri’, including Byron, mocked the Chilean team through social networks.

Castillo made a post on his official Instagram account with the following hint for Chile. “Qatar on TV”. This message provoked laughter and ridicule from the players of the Ecuadorian team.

“Let them tell it how they want”Michael Estrada said. “Brother, what group are they in?” said Gonzalo Plata. As well as them, Robert Arboleda, Jhegson Méndez, Pervis Estupiñán, Fernando León and Joao Rojas also spoke. All members of the group led by Gustavo Alfaro.

The alleged tests of the ANFP against him to go to the World Cup

The organization, through the Carlezzo law firm, formally demanded a sanction from the FIFA Disciplinary Committee against this country, which managed to qualify Qatar 2022 to the detriment of Chile.

“We sent a complaint to the FIFA Disciplinary Committee against the player Byron David Castillo Segura and the Ecuadorian Football Federation, due to the use of a false birth certificate, false declaration of age and false nationality by the aforementioned player.”, detailed the ANFP when announcing its complaint.

The case of the nationality of the Barcelona footballer and the Ecuadorian team Byron Castillo has been generating controversy and speculation for weeks about whether Chile should be classified.

“There is innumerable evidence that the player was born in Colombia (…) The investigations carried out in Ecuador, including a legal report from the National Directorate of Civil Registry, declared the existence of inconsistencies in the birth certificate presented by the player”, argued the Chilean Federation.

“All this, obviously, was fully known by the FEF. The world of football cannot close its eyes to so many tests”, he concluded.

In a public appearance in Quito in April, the lawyer Luigi García presented an alleged birth certificate registered in Tumaco, a town in the Colombian department of Nariño, which would correspond to the footballer under the name of Bayron Javier Castillo Seguro, with a date of birth in the 25 July 1995.

However, after several years of investigations, Castillo’s Ecuadorian nationality was accredited last year by the Ecuadorian Justice with a ruling that ordered that the player, of Colombian parents, be registered as Byron David Castillo Segura, born on November 10, 1998 in the coastal province of Guayas.