Colo Colo commemorated his centenary with intimate ceremony after death of fans

The Chilean Club Colo Colo commemorated this Saturday the centenary of its foundation with an intimate ceremony due to the mourning of the death of two of its fans in the surroundings of the Monumental stadium on April 10, before the start of a Copa Libertadores meeting.
“We had a national holiday budgeted That was going to develop yesterday and today. The mourning of Mylan, Martina and the dear María Colo Colo makes us sad, but for them we are going to overcome and get ahead, “said the club president, Aníbal Mosa.
The act held in the main stadium access He was dedicated to the 12 and 18 -year -old girls who died tragically in the midst of a police action in response to an avalanche of albos fans tried to enter without tickets, a fact that is still under investigation.
He also honored ‘María Colo Colo‘, his iconic 90 -year -old fans, who died this Friday due to a serious illness.
A hundred people among team members, club staff, former players, relatives and members of the Mapuche community They were part of the ceremony.
The death of young people triggered a crisis for the clubbecause the game against the Brazilian Fortaleza was canceled by the invasion of the field of albos fans in protest of deaths, and are waiting for sanctions.
“We have had problems of all kinds And Colo Colo always goes ahead, do not doubt it, we have to guide that path, “he added.
In the ceremony he unveiled A statue of the figure of David Arellanofounder of the club in 1925, as a tribute to the former soccer player who died following a blow received in a match during a team tour in Spain in 1927.
The sculpture is the work of Chilean artist Luis Arturo Hevia and is located in the main access of the stadium, where there were already the statues of two other colocolian idols: Carlos Caszely and Francisco ‘Chamaco’ Valdés.
The official model of the new Monumental Stadium was also presented, a remodeling that will include 60,000 new seats.
“This is the future Colo Colo stadium, We want to work for all people. It is a dream that we all have. Our dear enclosure has given us many joys, but asks us to retire it. You have to enter the dimension of the new stadiums, “he said.
The ceremony was made promise to celebrate the celebration of the centenary on a date of the coming monthsin which the visit of the Spanish Valladolid are scheduled.
As a symbolic gesture the counter placed on the main door of the stadium, which He brought the countdown to the centenary, He was stopped in a second and will be zero when they celebrate these events.