Ángel Lizardo Cheme Ortiz (born November 19, 1981 in Esmeraldas

Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Esmeraldas is a coastal city in northwestern Ecuador. It is the seat of the Esmeraldas Canton and the capital of the Esmeraldas Province. It has an international sea port and a small airport ....

) in an Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

ian footballer. He played the majority of his professional career as Gonzalo Javier Chila Palma, and claimed a date of birth of December 9, 1984, thus enabling him to play in age-restricted matches for three years after he was entitled to do so.

Identity case

In December 2010, Cheme was accused of aggravated identity theft

Identity theft

Identity theft is a form of stealing another person's identity in which someone pretends to be someone else by assuming that person's identity, typically in order to access resources or obtain credit and other benefits in that person's name...

 by the actual Gonzalo Chila, an evangelical pastor in Guayaquil

Guayaquil

Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port...

. This led the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) to investigate the accusations and apply any applicable punishments. FEF concluded that Cheme had used Chila's identity to play and was suspended for two years.

External links

• FEF player card of Ángel Cheme
• FEF player card of "Gonzalo Chila"