Chilean soccer fans insist that the Ecuadorian soccer player Byron Castillo was born in Colombia. If FIFA agrees, Ecuador would drop out of contention for the World Cup—and Chile would qualify instead.
Soccer fans, like most sports fans, are always up for a good argument, especially the kind that can’t really be resolved. The more subjective the debate, the better: which player was the greatest across different eras, which historical team would win in a head-to-head, which league is the strongest, which country has the most aesthetically pleasing style of play. Questions like these don’t succumb to data or statistics but must be teased out, workshopped, read aloud like poetry.
Chile’s qualifying campaign ended in March, with a home defeat to Uruguay, after which there was the predictable hand-wringing, along with savage post-mortems of the team’s humiliating decline. The coach’s contract was allowed to expire; the head of the Chilean federation called the campaign a collective “failure”; the team’s stalwart defender, Gary Medel, was seen weeping on the pitch.
If all this seems unsporting, it’s also not entirely surprising. In 2016, Chile argued that another player, on that occasion from Bolivia, was ineligible, andagreed. Unfortunately for the Chileans, in that case Bolivia’s deducted points also benefitted Chile’s fiercest rivals, Peru, a delightful outcome for me and thirty-three million of my closest friends. Qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in thirty-six years is a beautiful thing.
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