Due to injury, Byron Castillo will be out of the national team for the friendly against El Salvador

Barcelona’s defense and coaching staff were scheduled to perform, at the end of the series A tournament, a drain on the right knee.

A report from the Barcelona SC medical department details that the defender Byron Castillo “Suffered in previous weeks a contusion on the right kneeTherefore, a drainage of the affected area had been scheduled for these dates (at the end of the championship) ”.

“This has already been reported to all the corresponding channels for their disaffection in the call for the next friendly engagement of the national team”He added.

The last game in which the full-back participated as a starter with the yellow team was against Macara, last Sunday, in Ambato, where he started a point (1-1) that allowed him qualify for the first phase of the Copa Libertadores de América.

In recent days there was talk of a probable English football interest in the yellow defender, but the president of Barcelona, Carlos Alejandro Alfaro Moreno, denied that information and clarified that proposals had been received from Mexico and the MLS.

Castillo was one of the figures in Ecuador’s 3-0 victory over Bolivia, in a match played on October 7 for the 11th date of the South American qualifier for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, at the Monumental Banco Pichincha stadium.

After 49 minutes of that commitment, the side of the tricolor had to leave the field and then on the Twitter account @LaTRi it was announced that “the tricolor Byron Castillo, after the injury suffered in the game against Bolivia, He will return to his Barcelona SC team to accelerate his recovery process; for this reason, he is dismissed from the Tri ”.

In replacement of Castillo, for the next game against Venezuela (2-1), the side of the Independent of the Valley José Hurtado. (D)

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