Decent first half the wheels came off after that. Still great this golden generation made it to a World Cup even if four years late.
Panama lost 6-1. While England led 6-0, Felipe Baloy scored his fourth goal in his 102nd cap, which is the sixth most for Panama. Baloy got his first cap in 2001 and is 37.
I feel like this side is four years too old, I feel like they would have been more competitive in 2014. However some positive signs I like Jose Luis Rodriguez
Panama had 0 points, 2 goals scored (including an own goal by Tunisia), and 11 goals allowed. They finished last of the 32 teams. They had the worst goal differential since Korea DPR (North Korea) scored 1 and allowed 12 in 2010. Both of those were surprised qualifications, and Korea DPR is now 108th in the FIFA Rankings.
http://www.concacaf.com/en/world-cup-men/panama-df-felipe-baloy-announces-retirement is titled "Panama DF Felipe Baloy announces retirement."
https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/panamanian-futbol-s-paradisiacal-year is titled "Panamanian futbol's paradisiacal year."
https://www.fifa.com/development/ne...rehabilitated-football-stadium-in-panama.html is titled "FEPAFUT and FIFA Forward unveil rehabilitated football stadium in Panama."
https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/news/diego-valanta-panama-s-history-making-super-sub is titled "Diego Valanta, Panama’s history-making super sub." Panama got their first U-20 World Cup win and reached the Round of 16. Tomorrow at 11:30 A.M. USA Eastern, they play Ukraine. https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/news/panama-edge-saudi-arabia-for-historic-win is titled "Panama edge Saudi Arabia for historic win." https://www.fifa.com/u20worldcup/news/panamanian-elation-portuguese-heartbreak says Panama had 0 wins, 4 draws, and 13 losses in the U-20 World Cup before they beat Saudi Arabia 2-1. Panama advance as one of the best four third place teams from the goals scored tiebreaker. They scored 4 and allowed 3. Portugal were eliminated with the same 4 points and +1 as they scored 3 and allowed 2. Panama had scored 10 and allowed 34 in their first 17 U-20 World Cup games.
Abdiel Arroyo is already on the move. Newcastle Jets in Australia https://www.theherald.com.au/story/...-to-add-panama-international-to-strike-force/
Fidel Escobar possibly going to Cordoba CF (Spain, 2nd division (La Liga 2)). Interesting, Cordoba CF is linked to Manolo Mirambel, ex-president of Sporting San Miguelito. I do remember an article in either 2017 or 2018, where it was mentioned, that Cordoba would start pulling players from Panama's leagues. https://www.diariocordoba.com/notic...ndialista-panameno-fidel-escobar_1309350.html
Well, the road to Qatar 2022 just got officially even harder. 1. CONCACAF (and FIFA), announce that the FIFA ranking will now be used to determine the 6 automatic spots into the hexagonal. The top 3 ranked teams at the end of the HEX will go to Qatar 2. Spots 7 - 29 will fight it out, Copa Oro style, in the upcoming Liga de Naciones, with the winner then granted the opportunity to play against the 4th ranked team at the end of the hex. 3. The winner of the match, will then have a playoff against a team from one of the other conferences to determine who gets the last spot into Qatar 2022 this totally puts the current 5th to 8th ranked teams in a very tough situation. Basically this new tourney , Liga de Naciones, will be our qualifiers. And to add, there's only about 3 FIFA dates left for friendlies, which have to be scheduled efficiently because now the rival matters. The next FIFA ranking comes on July 25 2019. Hopefully the Copa Oro quarterfinal finish boosts us enough to get into the top 6, but from what Mr. Chip is forecasting, looks like Panama is at spot 7, with El Salvador 10 points ahead. That means at the moment we are out of the HEX, and have to duke it out with 29 teams (at least 16 games) to get the opportunity of 2 playoffs for the last WC spot. Good Luck! Si se pueded
Breaking news - Chaluja and the rest of the outgoing administration KNEW about the format changes, and 1. did not communicate this to the new administration under Arias 2. knowing the change of format, decided to assign an interim Coach (Stemple) for the 5 friendlies between September and December 2018. This coach, not being informed of the importance of friendlies under the new format, used the friendlies as opportunity to test out alternate teams/lineups. 3. did not communicate to the new coach (Dely) of the new format so he took Gold Cup game 3 lightly and threw out a B team vs USA (these points would have mattered inmensely in the FIFA ranking) Just one big Sh*t show.. Anyways there's still a chance, but now we have to figure out how to make the 10 point difference between us and El Salvador. The Liga de Naciones will be hard, because our group includes Mexico, who we HAVE to beat TWICE in order to have any hope.
https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/panama-appoint-argentina-1978-winner-gallego is titled "Panama appoint Argentina 1978 winner Gallego."
Good choice IMO. As a head coach he has 4 league championships in Argentina and 1 in the Mexican league. He's never managed a NT though.
https://www.concacaf.com/en/world-c...s-and-penedo-weigh-in-on-panama-s-wcq-chances is titled "Dely Valdes and Penedo weigh in on Panama’s WCQ chances."
Nashville SC @NashvilleSC Aníbal Godoy (@a_godoy03) could make his 100th international appearance for Panama when they take on Barbados in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifiers.
Here are tomorrow's start times in USA Eastern, all of which can be watched at https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/concacaf-qualifiers-road-to-qatar/ if you pay: Turks and Caicos vs. Haiti at 3:00 P.M. Bahamas vs. Trinidad and Tobago at 5:00 P.M. British Virgin Islands vs. Curacao at 5:00 P.M. U.S. Virgin Islands vs. El Salvador at 7:00 P.M. Anguilla vs. Panama at 8:00 P.M. Aruba vs. Canada at 8:00 P.M.
Tough break for Guatemala, eliminated because they only beat Cuba 1-0 while Curacao beat Cuba 2-1 Next round: Haiti v Canada Panama v Curacao St. Kitts and Nevis v El Salvador
Upcoming schedule: https://www.concacaf.com/en/world-cup-qualifying-men/schedule-results-world-cup-qualifying-men/
We are in the Ocho/Octagonal!!! It doesn’t matter how awful we played in Curaçao, we managed to be back at the final round of the qualifiers. Panama needs to improve a lot and I’m not sure if we are WC material this time but the hope is there and as we say here, that’s the last thing we lose. In other news, yesterday was the CONCACAF Liga de Campeones draw and our three representatives: Universitario, Plaza Amador and Club Atlético Independiente, knew their path to the finals. I think Universitario will play against a Martinique club in the first round and if they win, Montagua is next… a tough one. The other two clubs are waiting for their rivals and the better prepared for the competition is Plaza Amador, who never perform well in the International stage, but are the current champions (they defeated Universitario)… Any thoughts on the Gold Cup? Ocho?
Thoughts? For me, Mexico was the better side but Panama started playing very well. The first half was for Panama and in the second half Mexico brought everything into the game to get the goal and scape with a point. Panama is still undefeated until the next window and only two points behind Mexico. Next window we have two road trips to Cuscatlan in the first game and closing at Canada. We have a tough one in Rommel against US… I would like to get a least a draw in both road trips, specially in El Cuscatlan (where we should aim for a W) and make everything in our hand to get the W against US… less than 5 points could get us in the danger zone.