Colombian National Team General Thread

If I was Ecaudorian I would be REALLY pissed at the situation...like Jesus I didn't think that there was genuinely a case and it's only as things escalated that I started to believe.

 

haha Facebook is going to cost them the WC....

but how did the lawyer get this dudes baptism papers? Like I don't even know if they gave me those for my kids or wtf mine would be.

Is the Catholic Church against Ecuador as well?

 

🚨 #URGENTE | ⚽ 🇪🇨 FIFA habría decidido dejar a Ecuador sin Mundial por caso #ByronCastillo

Prensa mexicana afirma que el máximo organismo del fútbol mundial ya tomó una decisión sobre el joven futbolista de 23 años, quien habría nacido en Colombia.https://t.co/scoEzpLW6u

— Deportes La República (@LR_Deportes) June 8, 2022

Mexican media is making the claim that FIFA will disqualify Ecaudor but we don't know any official direct sources from FIFA itself.

And according to this supposed live feed, they recieved more supporting documents that he's Colombian?

Things should be officially announced tomorrow late afternoon or very early Friday morning for those of us in the western hemisphere.

⚽ #ENVIVO | 🇪🇨 Caso #ByronCastillo: la FIFA ya tendría el fallo sobre la nacionalidad del futbolista

Entérate de las últimas noticias con respecto a la resolución que la FIFA dé sobre el polémico caso que podría sacar a Ecuador del Mundial #Qatar2022.https://t.co/3RKNWrtpct

— Deportes La República (@LR_Deportes) June 8, 2022

 

Supposed "leak".

1534585218547470347 is not a valid tweet id

But not 100% reliable and we still have to wait.

 

And things continue to escalate during the time of my writing...

 

There are a Lot of people that play in countries where they didn't born... .. Did Castillo fake it all the way?.. why don't just play by FIFA eligibility rules for these cases?...

Why did You have to lieeeee

 

Honestly for all we know he may have assumed that the paper work was properly done; considering that there were allegations since he was in the U20 squad, he have maybe been "assured" that he was naturally legal as a citizen. Now I don't know how it works in Ecuador but why wouldn't they have simply "fixed" and properly legalize him as a citizen for Ecaudor?

It's baffling how incompetent Ecaudor seemingly was with not properly making him a citizen of their own country if he was promising enough to be called up to not only their youth squads of the national team, but for the senior team as well.

 

So can we call up Castillo for the 26 cycle??

 

FIFA elimina a Ecuador del Mundial por el reclamo de Chile.

FIFA le quita los puntos a Ecuador pero no se los da a Chile porque es solo sanción para descalificar.

Perú al Mundial directo y Colombia a repechaje.

Colombia lleva a Byron Castillo al Mundial.

What a dream.

— La DiStefaneta (@Cemaleze) June 8, 2022

 

Let me throw in a couple of theories that could explain Castillo's case:

1. It is not uncommon for people born in remote places to not have their full documentation, and sometimes there is really no paper trail to follow.

2. If a young kid is raised in a country or according to certain customs, he could easily assume that he was a citizen of that country and part of that culture.

Assume that is the case for Castillo: He moved to Ecuador as a young boy and assumed that he was Ecuadorian, and even if he later realized that he wasn't, it is possible that he couldn't find the paperwork and then at some point, he opted to forge his id.

Of course is terrible that both Castillo and the FEF allowed this to grow to that extent, specially if they considered him to be so important, which at the same time is odd, because he played in about half the games only.

 

It's late in Switzerland right now, we won't likely hear anything new until tomorrow and by then they would make their final decision by late afternoon since it would be be Friday for them; tonight it will be Thrusday morning for them.

 

dude I feel really bad for that guy regardless of what happens

 

haha Mexicans are trolling everyone

obviously Peru wants to be 4th.

chile/Colombia want to be at the WC but not this way!!

 

So something interesting that keeps being brought up:

Some Italy supporters keep claiming that there's a FIFA "rule" that would basically have Italy attend the world cup vacant spot since they're among the highest ranked teams now obviously this doesn't matter since this would take a spot from South America (which FIFA would logically never humor; even the FIFA president made this very clear that there's no chance.

For us however,

We have been signicantly ahead in Chile in terms of rankings even at the end of the qualifiers and given that Chile's case is a sanction case on an actual legal formal matter, there's no 100% that FIFA would meet Chile's complete demands; they're handling whether or not Ecaudor should be disqualified and this doesn't necessarily apply to Chile getting the point as it's up to FIFA regardless if Ecaudor is eliminated.

So in theory if FIFA simply disqualifies Ecaudor, Colombia has two ways for us to go to the world cup.

 

This does open Pandora’s box, I’m sure Ecuador wasn’t the only country in the world who has done this… recently

 

Some Colombians are already lol.

Colombia RESUCITA!
●A estas horas FIFA resolvió eliminar a Ecuador del Mundial x el tema #ByronCastillo .
●FIFA retira puntos a Ecuador, ➕ no modifica puntaje de los demás países.
●Beneficiado: Colombia.
●Chile sigue ELIMINADO
●Perú directo al Qatar y Colombia a repechaje. pic.twitter.com/Wsf1PkORQL

— Louis Villanueva (@1montaraz) June 8, 2022

 

Let’s sue to get the us eliminated they do questionable things with under aged foreign players

 

Where did the coach touch you Crzd?

 

Imagine we get to go to the World Cup and call this dude up LOL he’d be enemy number 1 in Ecuador

 

Jesus I had no idea they had a history of this...makes them increasingly sus.

 

Is he even good?