Francisco Sanchez Rumoroso

From outside, the stands read as a hull: Alberto Montealegre Klenner and Myriam Beach Lobos, working with Hanne Utreras Peyrin, shaped the rebuilt ground in Coquimbo after the ships that made the port, and the district it stands in gave it the name locals use, El Coloso del Llano.

The name on the gate belongs to a man who died the same year the first municipal ground opened here. Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso, a Spanish immigrant who built the Celta mattress firm and backed Coquimbo Unido, died in 1970; that August, weeks after the original stadium was inaugurated, the city attached his name to it.

What stands now is not that building. Chile's hosting of the 2008 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup forced a rebuild to FIFA specification, and the ground came back with upholstered seats where the wooden benches had been, a scoreboard imported from Europe and a new lighting rig, at a cost of 10,701 million pesos — an earlier, far smaller refit in 2004 had run to 500 million.

The tournament that prompted the work also set the mark that still stands: 16,324 for Chile against New Zealand on 22 November 2008. Coquimbo Unido have not come close in league football, their own best being 9,617 against Ñublense in September 2017.

Since then the ground has taken the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the 2018 Copa América Femenina, senior internationals against Costa Rica and Panama, concerts by Maná and Romeo Santos, and a 2004 tennis exhibition between Marcelo Ríos and Mardy Fish. The Municipality of Coquimbo runs it; the stadium's own website has been dark since 2013.