The Chilean soccer federation has called upon FIFA to investigate Ecuador after claiming that Ecuador fielded an ineligible player during World Cup qualifying.
Chile said that it has sent documentation to the FIFA disciplinary committee showing that Ecuador winger Byron Castillo used “a false birth certificate, false statement of age and false nationality,” was instead born in Colombia and is older than what his Ecuadorian document lists.
“All this, obviously, was fully known by the (Ecuadorean Federation],” the Chilean federation released in a statement. “The world of soccer cannot close its eyes to this much proof.