Carlos Caszely

Carlos Humberto Caszely Garrido ( born July 5, 1950 in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean football coach and former football player.

The only 1,67 m big beefy Striker Carlos Caszely played in the early 1970s for the Chilean capital club Colo Colo. Caszely played in the Chilean national team, for the play-offs to qualify for the FIFA World Cup 1974 qualifying in 1973 in Germany against the Soviet Union. This should be a highly explosive game after the military coup by General Augusto Pinochet. The first leg ended 0-0 in Moscow. On 27 November 1973 the return leg to be held in the notorious National Stadium of Santiago de Chile. The stadium had been converted by Pinochet's government as a concentration camp. Here opponents of the military regime were until a few days before the game even tortured, murdered or arrested and transported away the last bodies from the catacombs. The Soviet Union came not to protest against the military coup. Pinochet had brought fans into the stadium and let demonstratively run up the Chilean national team. After the trigger, the Chilean players were running with the ball towards the empty opponent's goal and Carlos Caszely scored the goal for the symbolic 1:0. His name appeared on the scoreboard as the scorer. After the referee stopped the game and the FIFA awarded the match 2-0 to Chile. Chile had qualified for the World Cup in Germany.

In the 1974 World Cup Chile played in the first game against Germany. Germany struggled, but led by a long shot of Paul Breitner. In the second half Caszely was sent off for a foul on revenge Berti Vogts by the Turkish referee Doğan Babacan. It was the first red card in the history of the World Cup Soccer Championships. FIFA had introduced the yellow and red cards only at the Football World Cup 1970. Chile lost the match 0-1 and Caszely was suspended for the game against the GDR ( 1:1). In the last game of the first final round against Australia (0-0 ) it was used over the entire distance. Chile was eliminated thereafter.

Caszely, which it was temporarily banned due to criticism of the regime, to play football in Chile, then played in Spain temporarily football. 1973-74 UD Levante and from 1974 to 1978 at Espanyol Barcelona. After he had returned to Chile and then played at Colo Colo, he took again to the Football World Cup 1982 in part in Spain. Again he played in a group with Germany. This time Chile won with 1:4 and had more defeats against Austria and Algeria go home again after the preliminary round. Caszely had this a particularly unfortunate scene as he sat against Austria in addition to a penalty kick. Overall Caszely was used in 49 international matches, in which he scored 29 goals. Today Caszely works as a club coach in South America.