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Chile stadiums
not up :scared: to scratch for qualifiers
SANTIAGO, April 10 (Reuters) -
Chile's football stadiums are unfit :nono: to host World Cup qualifiers, FIFA representative Alvaro Gonzalez said.
Chile have designated Santiago's National and Monumental stadiums for the 2010 qualifying competition, which is due to start in South America later this year, but Gonzalez said after inspections that both needed modernising.
He said in a radio interview that the pitch at the National Stadium posed risks to the players while the Monumental stadium, which belongs to Colo Colo, needed improvements to the stands.
"You can't play a football match on this pitch," Gonzalez told Radio Cooperativa after visiting the National Stadium, which was notoriously used to hold political prisoners following a military coup in 1973.
"It doesn't offer the conditions necessary for the players to freely develop their game and show their talents without running risks.
"It has a lot of areas which offer serious risks to the players.
"FIFA have issued some recommendations and a deadline of mid-August, when a new inspection will take place to see if the corrections have been made."
Chile last qualified for the World Cup in 1998. They are due to kick off their 2010 campaign away to Argentina and their first home game will be against neighbours Peru.
Chilean media have often criticised the state of the country's football stadiums. A match in Rancagua was recently called off at short notice after a plague of termites

damaged seats in one of the stands.