Thus the CAS explains “a 3 points deduction to the FEF in the next World Cup pre-qualifying stageand the FEF is ordered to pay a fine to FIFA of 100,000 Swiss francs within 30 days of the announcement of the award”.
The controversy is related to the eligibility of the player Byron Castillo to participate in the matches of the Ecuador National Team corresponding to the preliminaries of the Conmebol for the final phase of the Qatar 2022 World Cup between September 2021 and March 2022.
In May 2022, the FFC filed a complaint before FIFA alleging a possible falsification of documents establishing Byron Castillo’s Ecuadorian nationality, as well as his alleged unfitness to play with Ecuador the matches between September 2021 and March 2022 corresponding to the World Cup qualifiers.
FIFA’s Disciplinary Commission has method disciplinary measures and made a decision on June 10, 2022, with which it is all cost against the FEF and terminated the proceedings.
The FPF and the FFC I’m going to appealn said decision before the FIFA Appeals Committee, which dismissed those appeals and confirmed the decision of the first instance.
On September 28, 2022, the FPF and the FFC appealed the decision of the FIFA Appeals Committee to the CAS.
The appeal of the FPF was directed against the FEF and FIFA. The FPF requested that Ecuador was excluded from the World Cup in Qatar and was replaced by Peru, which was the best-seeded team after Ecuador.
The FFC’s appeal was against the FEF, Byron Castillo and FIFA.
The FFC requested the CAS to determine that the player was ineligible in the eight matches he played in the qualifiers and to consider those matches lost to Ecuador, forcing Chile into the fourth position of the South American qualifications.
The arbitration group responsible for resolving the case recorded the hearing in person on November 4-5, 2022 Lausanne (Swiss).
After the hearing is over, consulted Y dissolved unanimous that the FEF has not violated Article 22 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code as the player was eligible to participate in the qualifying phase for the World Cup.
Since the nationality of a player to play for a national federation is determined by the legislation of each countrythe footballer was eligible to play with the Ecuadorian national team as the Ecuadorian authorities recognized that he had Ecuadorian nationality.
It also finds that “the FEF has violated Article 21 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code by using a document containing false information.”
FIFA does not refer to national law in cases of forgery of documents. Consequently, FIFA does not require a decision by the Ecuadorian judicial authorities regarding the forgery of the player’s passport to determine that the document is forgery. under Article 21 of its Disciplinary Code”.
Source: El heraldo
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