How it was 09.01.2000 (2000)

Newsreel: episodes of the USSR-Uruguay football match at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.

A guest in the studio-a player of the USSR national football team Yevgeny Lovchev in 1973 talks about the composition of the national team in 1970 and 1973, the problems of the national team due to the departure of veterans, about the qualifying matches of 1972, about the rivals, about the prospects of playing with the Chile team, about his first reaction to the events in Chile and the prospects of the match with the Chilean team, about the ideological situation on the eve of the game, the nature of the game and the aura of nervousness around the match, about the impact of a draw on the players ' desire to go to Chile, about the attitude to the match as a farce, about the possibility of winning.

Newsreel of 1973: fragments of the USSR-France match in Luzhniki.

Oleg Blokhin opens an account.

The USSR national team scores the second goal.

The storming of the Palace of La Moneda in Santiago during the military coup in Chile in September 1973.

Tanks on the streets of Santiago.

Residents of the city are fleeing from the shelling, the faces of the military.

The defeated cabinet of President Allende after the capture of the Palace of La Moneda.

Internal views of the destroyed rooms of the palace.

The military on the streets of the city.

A guest in the studio-the former second coach of the USSR national team Alexey Paramonov talks about the order of qualifying matches, the possibility of holding a match in a neutral country, the course of the USSR-Chile match and the draw result of the match.

A guest in the studio - former deputy chairman of the Committee on Physical Education and Sports Viktor Ivonin talks about the preparation for the match in Moscow, the absence of an application from the Chilean national team, contacts with the International Football Federation, the reasons for the ban on broadcasting the match, the correct nature of the game, the non-return of some Chilean players to their homeland, the reaction of the Sports Committee to the draw result of the game, the position of the head of the International Football Federation Stanley Rose on the conclusions about the possibility of holding the return match in Santiago, the interest of England in the refusal of the USSR from the match with Chile, the appeal to the The Central Committee of the CPSU about the refusal of the game in Santiago, about the fear of FIFA to approve the result and the futile attempts of the USSR to protest the results of the match and the double-dealing of Stanley Rose.

The guest in the studio is a former editor of the press and information department of the Central Stadium.

Lenin Boris Levin talks about the ideological situation that developed on the eve of the match, the activities in preparation for the match, the episode with the anthems of Chile and the USSR, the arrival of the Chilean players at the stadium.

Newsreel of 1973: arrested people are taken out of a bus in Santiago.

Prisoners in the stands of the National Stadium, turned into a concentration camp.

Chile national football team at the National Stadium in Santiago on November 21, 1973.

The players respond to the cheers of the fans.

Electronic stadium scoreboard.

The Chilean players play the ball with each other due to the absence of the opposing team.

The Chileans score a goal in an empty net.

View of the half-empty stands of the stadium, the result on the scoreboard.

Interview with Stanley Rose about the exclusion of the USSR national team from the World Cup on December 11, 1973 in Zurich (synchronously).