Ecuador stored its place on the World Cup however will probably be deducted three factors in qualifying for the 2026 event due to a false doc getting used to get a passport for a Colombia-born participant, sport’s highest courtroom dominated Tuesday.
The Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport’s ruling comes 12 days earlier than Ecuador performs host Qatar within the opening sport on the World Cup and ended the hopes of Chile and Peru, who had every appealed to exchange their South American rival.
Chile and Peru had argued that Ecuador used an ineligible participant in eight qualifying video games and must be thrown out of the World Cup. However the CAS judges mentioned Ecuador defender Byron Castillo was eligible by FIFA guidelines to play in each the qualifying marketing campaign and on the World Cup in Qatar.
Nonetheless, the judges additionally mentioned Castillo was born in Colombia and that false details about his date and hometown had been used to get an Ecuadorian passport.
CAS imposed a 100,000 Swiss francs ($100,000) superb on the Ecuador soccer federation and ordered a three-point deduction within the South American qualifying group for the 2026 World Cup.