“In our Federation training centre there are three showers that don’t work and one of us can only use it when the other has finished.

“At the Colo Colo stadium, then, we turn on the showers and are showered in our own excrement. Is this a national team or what?”

Well, maybe they can afford new showers when they eventually make a record sale with Pizzaro. Record transfer is still just €8.7m with Matias Fernandez to Villarreal in 2006.

Crazy. Biggest and richest club in Chile and their ownership can’t even have proper functioning showers.