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Congress unanimously voted to take all action in its power-to stop the SFA Chile match in the Santiago stadium this summer. Pedro Carnejo of the Chilean Trade Union Federation, CUT, explained what "keeping politics out of sport really meant:
"On the 5th of October 1973, I myself was taken prisoner and taken to the National Stadium. More than 12,000 of my fellow countrymen were at that moment in that prison, in that stadium, in the galleries and changing rooms. And for 33 days that 1 spent in that place, I lived through the terror that was being practiced on my people there. "And the president of the FIFA, the international football association visited the stadium to inspect it. And those of us who were prisoners there at that time were obliged, to clean up the stadium. And when Sir Stanley Rowse, the president, appeared in company with the fascist generals, we were herded off to one side to rooms apart, so Sir Stanley Rowse would see a stadium that was empty and suitable to play football in".