Ehlers menunjukkan dukungannya atas keputusan Bolivia, mengajak seluruh Amerika Selatan, untuk tidak mengakui aturan FIFA dan mengatakan ia pikir larangan tersebut kaku, kata juru bicara Freddy Ehlers, sekretaris jenderal Komunitas Andea, gabungan kerjasama perdagangan negara-negara yang anggotanya Bolivia, Peru, Ekuador dan Kolombia.
Ehlers expressed his support for Bolivia's call, made to all of South America, to not recognise FIFA's ruling and said he thinks the ban is heavy-handed, said a spokesman for Freddy Ehlers, secretary general of the Andean Community, a trade bloc that counts Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia as members.