Sergey PogrebnyakReporter SportAll materialsEmail to the authorCan world football do without high-profile scandals for at least a couple of weeks? Of course not. This time the focus of the news has become Latin America, which seriously intends to change the composition of the upcoming World Cup. It's all about the Ecuadorian football player Byron Castillo. Ecuadorian or not? The team of this country took fourth place in the selection for the World Cup and won a direct ticket to Qatar. The draw for the upcoming World Cup has already passed, as a result of which the Ecuadorians ended up in a quartet with Qatar, Senegal and the Netherlands. But right now, the composition of this group cannot be called final, because FIFA has opened an official investigation against Ecuador. It's all about the same defender Castillo, who managed to play eight matches in the selection for the World Cup. Byron is suspected of not being Ecuadorian at all. After the completion of the qualifying round, information appeared about the real place of birth of the football player, which does not correspond to his passport data. The initiator of the investigation was the Football Federation of Chile, whose team was only seventh in the selection and flew past the World Cup.
