Could Reinaldo Rueda lead the Colombian National Team again?

As the hours go by the controversy of the Byron Castillo case increases and questions the participation of the Ecuadorian team in the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Although Fifa continues to analyze the evidence to deliver a final verdict, in the South American soccer environment there is talk about all the possibilities.

One of them is the non-classification of Ecuador so that Chile, the team that filed the lawsuit, or Colombia go to the next World Cup. It should be emphasized that the information is not official and are simple rumors so far.

Faced with this situation, and with some enthusiasm from the national team, the journalist Carlos Antonio Vélez referred to a matter that is not better in the event that the Tricolor can access the World Cup. In Big words of Antena 2, left the doubt about who would take the reins of the team if there is the possibility of playing the repechage, since Peru would qualify directly.

And since the legal action against Ecuador would change all plans, on paper, coach Reinaldo Rueda would be fulfilling his contract by bringing Colombia closer to Qatar 2022. “Reinaldo’s contract ended its execution when the Colombian competition ended”, said the journalist.

Understanding that the Colombian National Team was left without competition“That’s why he sealed the contract.” Now, “if suddenly there is that remote possibility” of playing the international playoff, Vélez wondered “what will happen to Rueda’s contract?”

“Rueda and his lawyer can perfectly say that they settled the contract before it ended, so he can ask for compensation or that he be given his job back,” he added about the options that the Cali strategist would have.

“If they were to rule in favor of Colombia there would be a problem with Rueda, and I know there will be because he would say: ‘Are they going to end a contract where the competition has not ended?'”he asserted.

At the moment there is no more information about the decision that Fifa will make in the case of Byron Castillo, who, unwittingly, has put the Ecuadorian National Team in a rather uncomfortable situation.

the queen test

Lawyer Eduardo Carlezzo, representative of the Chilean Football Federation, exhibited new evidence on the complaint against its similar from Ecuador by the player Byron Castillo for alleged falsehood, three days before Fifa delivers a ruling on the controversial case.

At a press conference in Santiago, Carlezzo showed a baptismal certificate for Castillo, a ceremony that would have been held in the Colombian town of Tumaco, in the southern department of Nariño, bordering Ecuador.

According to the lawyer, this and other evidence would confirm that the 23-year-old soccer player is Colombian and not Ecuadorian, and that his participation in the Ecuadorian team during the South American qualifiers would be flawed. “This document is very important to me (…). That birth certificate of Byron in Colombia is dated November 25, 1996, is recognized and validated by the church on June 1, 2022 “Carlezzo told reporters.

The lawyer has already argued that Castillo’s Ecuadorian birth certificate is false. He explained that the soccer player “was born on July 25, 1998 in Colombia”, but is using a birth certificate “from November 10 in Ecuador”.