MEXICO CITY: The Mexican television channel TV Azteca has claimed that FIFA has already decided that Ecuador should be expelled from the World Cup finals for fielding an ineligible player in the qualifying competition.

Ecuador are in trouble because of claims that wingback Byron David Castillo, 23, from Barcelona of Guayaquil, falsified his birth documents and is a Colombian national. 

TV Azteca claimed that Chile, who finished sixth in the South American liguilla and missed out on qualifying for Qatar, would be parachuted into the finals.

That would certainly be challenged by Peru who finished fifth and thus playoff next week against Australia in Doha for the right to qualify.

TV Azteca said FIFA will announce its official decision later this week.

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