A ball with a deadly curve: Chilean football during Augusto Pinochet´s dictatorship (1973-1987)

Abstract

The military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet affected all components of the social, cultural and economic life of Chilean society, and soccer, as the most popular sport in the country, was not exempt from interventions to fulfill multiple purposes. In this way, this paper delves into and studies Chilean football during the military dictatorship, the multiple interventions it suffered, both at the club level and the national team in its different categories, and how the actions of the regime on football unleashed sportive, administrative and organizational affectations that had repercussions in a great crisis at the end of the 80s, necessitating the creation of the ANFP in 1987.