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I read about this issue and I wonder if this decision by FIFA will allow for Ukraine, or Italy to make a comeback for the World Cup because I’m sure that FIFA would like to replace them. Furthermore I understand that it’s a complicated situation, but I would really like to see Italy back because it’ll make the World Cup more interesting to watch, and what about other's which team would you’ll like to see be recalled back to the World Cup.
It's not really about selecting any team to join. It's basically a well defined sanction, which means the specific matches where the played was in the field will be changed to a 3 - 0 win for the other team.
If you run the numbers with all the matches the player was in the field, you end up with Chile qualifying in 4th place.
It's not that they're picking a specific team to go to the world cup instead of Ecuador (if this ends up being accepted as true by FIFA).