The 1973 play-off for a place in the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany, between the national football teams of the Soviet Union and Chile, is notable for the political circumstances that marked the
Soldiers at the Estadio Nacional in September 1973 during its use as a concentration camp
1973 Chilean coup d'état
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The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was a military overthrow of the socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government. Allende, who has been described as the first Marx
1974 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA–CONMEBOL play-off)
…of the play-off on 21 November 1973. It was scheduled to take place in the Estadio Nacional de Chile in Santiago, the Chilean capital. There had been a coup d'état in Chile two months before, whereupon people deemed undesirable to the new regime of Augusto Pinochet had been held captive and executed in the stadium. The…
Golpe de Estado 1973
Sylvain Julienne durant le coup d’état au Chili en septembre 1973
Salvador Allende and Fidel Castro in Chile, 1971 (See State visit by Fidel Castro to Chile).