The diary details that the “extraordinary revelation” comes before the FIFA Appeals Committee makes a decision on the matter this weekwhich may affect the participation of said Selection in Qatar.
The Daily Mail publishes the recording of what he claims is a conversation between soccer player Byron Castillo and investigators from the Ecuadorian Soccer Federation (FEF) who analyzed his case in 2018.
In the audio, the athlete “clearly states that he was born in 1995, not in 1998, as it says on his Ecuadorian birth certificate,” narrates the British newspaper.
The footballer cites his full name as Bayron Javier Castillo Segura, which corresponds to his Colombian birth certificate, not the Ecuadorianin which he is identified as Byron David Castillo Segura, according to the Daily Mail.
It also “describes in detail how he left the Colombian city of Tumaco to go to San Lorenzo, in Ecuador, to try to carve out a career in soccer” and “names Ecuadorian businessmen who got him a new identity,” he adds.
At the same time, the media publishes a letter detailing the conclusions reached by the federation after those investigations.
The letter assures that Castillo is a Colombian citizen born in Tumaco in 1995 and adds that there is recorded evidence of the player’s “confession”.
Despite this, the FEF officially determined in 2019 that Castillo is an Ecuadorian citizen, adds the Daily Mailwhich assures that Castillo “admitted to using a false passport and the Ecuadorian federation hid it.”