David Arellano Monumental Stadium
Founder's-namesake stadium rebuilt after engineers found its original nineteen-seventies structure unsafe.
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This guide to the David Arellano Monumental Stadium in Santiago opens with the sudden death of Colo-Colo's founder and first captain during a 1927 European tour, and the acrobatic kick that made him famous on that same trip. Grief turned into ambition, and in 1956 the club broke ground here on what it hoped would be one of the largest stadiums on the continent. An earthquake and years of money troubles stalled the work long after that first shovel went in.
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