Byron Castillo will sue Chile for damages suffered as a result of his accusation

Ecuadorian soccer player Byron Castillo will sue the National Association of Professional Soccer (ANFP) of Chile for damages caused as a result of his complaint in which he accused him of having used false documents to prove his birth in Ecuador.

This was announced by the lawyer specializing in sports law Andrés Holguín, who claimed to have agreed with the player to take legal action against the ANFP of Chile after the FIFA Disciplinary Committee fully dismissed the complaint.

“He did everything to Byron Chile,” Holguín told the digital program La Clave, in which he indicated that they have not yet decided whether they will demand a disciplinary sanction or financial compensation.

“We know that Byron is going to act against the Chilean federation because the damaging comments are against the player,” he added.

On Thursday, the president of the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FPF), Francisco Egas, already anticipated that his body was also evaluating taking legal action against the ANFP of Chile by seeing both the name of the institution and that of its authorities and that of the footballer himself.

Since the Chilean ANFP denounced the FEF to FIFA in May for an alleged improper alignment of Byron Castillo in the qualifiers, the footballer has lived difficult weeks, where the pressure took its toll.

Between tears he came to ask in the middle of a game to be substituted, after he was the involuntary protagonist of two goals received by Barcelona in their confrontation against Aucas, where the Guayaquil team was playing for the title of the first phase of the league of Ecuadorian soccer.

Chile’s demand sought a sanction against Ecuador that would allow La Roja to reach a quota for the Qatar 2022 World Cup to the detriment of the Tricolor.

For this, the ANFP maintained that Castillo presented allegedly false documents in the trial held last year, where his nationality and his Ecuadorian origin were ratified, after years of doubts and rumors that he had been born in Colombia.

However, the FIFA Disciplinary Committee ruled that there were no grounds to sanction Ecuador, since all of Castillo’s calls with the Ecuadorian team were made with official Ecuadorian documents and in order.

However, this ruling can be appealed to the FIFA Appeals Committee, and in a third instance the case can reach the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).