In 1962 The Football World Cup came to Chile with the England team playing their group games in Rancagua.

 MJA came across the book below (which had been remaindered by May 2007 having been published in 2006) and browsed to see what it had to say about the Chilean World Cup:

GMA comments on the last paragraph  (May 16 2007) :

At the time of the 1962 World Cup, the railroad would have been the logical route to Coya - I doubt if there were enough buses to move that mob by road. I believe the team members were housed in regular senior staff houses and an expat lady took care of their food. The writer sounds thoroughly disgruntled as  well as disrespectful - "one horse town" indeed!. Of course,  Rancagua is now a large town by Chilean standards.
There was an American style bowling alley in Coya.

GMA  further comments ( May 21 2007):

 The Encyclopaedia Britannica says of Chile's 1960 earthquake: "casualties included about 5,700 killed and 3,000 injured and massive property damage". 

Rancagua must have been greatly uplifted by the terremoto to reach 8,000 feet above sea level. I think the author must have picked that number from the air somewhere between Caletones and Sewell. Since he says Rancagua is inland from Santiago he seems to have been under the impression that Santiago  was on the coast. And this despite placing the Santiago National Stadium "under the Andes mountains". Also, Coya as "the home of the  Braden Copper Company".

 
In view of the spitting incident, the English team should have been thankful the games were not held in Argentina!

(The hospital  was in Sewell not Coya.)
GMA comments on the last paragraph (May 16 2007):
You may know from Pete that I drove him from Rancagua to the Sewell hospital after he dislocated his shoulder at the swimming pool of the Coya Country Club. But that was a very primitive road and I may have been a first. I remember the Ford Station Wagon barely made it to that altitude, for which the motor was not aspirated.

"The Rough Guide to Chile" (2002) is more complimentary about Rancagua:
 To this day Pete is annoyed that he missed the Chilean World Cup because he had to return to England to go to school!