The Anticorruption Secretariat and the Ecuafútbol have a second match to investigate at the Second Category level. The suspicious 25-0 result of Deportivo La Paz from Manta against Club Carlos Borbor from Santa Elena is joined by another investigable result, not because of the score, but because of the way it happened.
Pelileo was winning 3-1 against Recreo in El Puyo, however, with San Francisco's 2-0 victory over Guano, the team from Tungurahua was being left out of the next phase due to goal difference; the curious thing is that when there were only 7 minutes left, the El Recreo players abandoned the field and Pelileo won with the score they needed: 3-0.
But people who were at the El Puyo stadium say that San Francisco was going to be the favored team, because that team would qualify with Pelileo's 3-1 victory over El Recreo. There were accounts that emissaries from the Azogues club "with suitcases full of money" for the Amazonian players.
They even say that the Pelileo players (who needed to score another goal) were upset by the abandonment of their rivals and asked them to come back and play. But they did not expect that, by regulation, the result was not going to stay as it was on the scoreboard until that moment, but what is stated in Article 97 of the FEF Disciplinary Commission was determined, which is that a team that withdraws or does not show up loses 3-0.
Thus, the spectators say, San Francisco's emissaries "shot themselves in the foot" and Pelileo qualified.
The qualified teams seeking two spots in serie B
After the zonal matches, the following teams will be in the national tournament of the Second Category:
Vargas Torres (Esmeraldas)
Deportivo La Paz (Manabí)
Venecia (Los Ríos)
Esmeraldas FC (Esmeraldas)
Imbabura FC (Imbabura)
Cumbayá (Pichincha)
Espoli (Pichincha)
Otavalo (Imbabura)
Chacaritas (Tungurahua)
Juventud Minera (Bolívar)
Deportivo Guano (Chimborazo)
Pelileo (Tungurahua)
9 de Octubre (Guayas)
Parma (Machala)
Patria (Guayas)
La Gloria (Azuay).