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Carlos Caszely was the star guest this Sunday in Zoom, where he reviewed the great moments of his career, but especially the campaign of Colo Colo in the Copa Libertadores 73 ‘, when he lost the final with Independiente de Avellaneda, after a controversial final series.
The white idol did not hesitate to qualify those matches as “a robbery”, questioning the arbitration of the three matches that had to be played.
“The best player in Argentina was named Julio Grondona, since he died they never won anything again“said the former striker.
Furthermore, he did not hesitate to assert that “If Conmebol were decent, it would give us that year’s cup“.
As for the final, he recalled that the first leg in Argentina “was terrible.” Shortly after the start of the duel, the former striker assured that “the bus did not arrive (…) we rented five taxis and we visited on top of them and we arrived an hour earlier.”
“The Argentines told us that they cheated a lot to win the Copa Libertadores“He said, remembering that the tie on the hour of the trans-Andean players was with a clear foul on the white goalkeeper.” They put the gringo Nef with the ball and everything within the goal, “he said.
After the 1-1 and a rare rule change on the fly, Colo Colo had to win in Santiago to lift the trophy for the first time, but the commitment ended 0-0, after, with another controversy, he was annulled somewhat by an alleged offside to Caszely himself. “The goal was legitimate wherever you look at it,” he said.
Already in the third game, which would be a tiebreaker, played in Uruguay, Caszely said that “the whole stadium was with us, except the referee“, who expelled Leonel Herrera extralately, leading to the victory of Independiente 2-1 in overtime.
Caszely remembered the moment when, when he had to go to La Moneda with La Roja, he denied the greeting to Augusto Pinochet during the dictatorship.
“It was like seeing a guy from the First World War,” said the former striker when he recounted that he saw him dressed in a cape, dark glasses and his military cap.
“I did not greet Pinochet because I thought of 90% of the democratic people who were suffering in my country“, said.
Caszely also dedicated a few words to the penalty that failed in the 1982 World Cup in Spain, which is still remembered as a negative milestone in the history of Chilean football.
“This is going to carry me around for life,” he said, adding that “there are jokes about the prison for when I die.”
However, despite the criticism, he recalled that “they tried to lower me 1000 times from Colo Colo and the National Team, but they never could.”
Finally, Caszely sent a message about the pandemic, stating that he hopes that we all learn from this: “I hope the Chilean after this pandemic is much better.”
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