The Pinochet’s Team. The Soccer National Team and the Coup D’état of September 11, 1973

Abstract

This article analyzes the coverage that the Chilean sports press made of the football matches between the national team and the team of the Soviet Union, after the Coup d’état that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende in 1973. The dictatorship, trough the press narrative, instrumentalized these football episodes in order to spread a discourse about dictatorial restoration, discourse that was used to justify the military intervention in Chile.