Football World Cup 2018 / Panama

Football World Cup 2018 : Panama
Trainer	Hernán Darío Gómez
captain	Felipe Baloy
Qualified as	Third in the CONCACAF qualification
World rankings before the tournament	55
Tournament result	Out after the preliminary round
Games won	0
Games tie	0
Games lost	3
Gates	2:11

The Panamanian national soccer team took part in a final round for the first time at the 2018 World Cup and was the eleventh CONCACAF member to qualify for a World Cup final.

qualification

The team qualified through the CONCACAF qualifying games for the World Cup in Russia .

Games

Panama didn't have to qualify until the fourth round. Together with Costa Rica, the team prevailed there against Haiti and Jamaica. In the fifth round they both faced Honduras, Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago and the USA. Panama only qualified on the last day of the match with a 2-1 win against the already qualified Costa Ricans. Costa Rica took the lead 1-0 in the 36th minute. Gabriel Torres in the 52nd minute and Román Torres in the 88th minute then ensured Panama's victory. They also benefited from the fact that the USA team, which had previously been placed in front of them, lost their away game against bottom of the table Trinidad and Tobago 2-1. With this, Panama had achieved third place with 9:10 goals in front of the team from Honduras with the same number of points, but who had an even worse goal difference, and thus directly qualified for the World Cup finals. Honduras later failed in the intercontinental playoff against Asian champions Australia .

In total, national coach Hernán Darío Gómez , who took over the team in February 2014, deployed 32 players, the majority of whom also took part in the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2015 and CONCACAF Gold Cup 2017 as well as the Copa América Centenario 2016 . No player was used in all 16 qualifiers. Alberto Quintero made 15 appearances, Armando Cooper , Aníbal Godoy and record national player Gabriel Gómez each recorded 14 appearances . Amílcar Henríquez , who died on April 15, 2017 from injuries sustained in a shootout in front of his house, played eight games - 18 days after his last appearance in qualifying. The top scorers were Gabriel Torres with three goals and Abdiel Arroyo , record scorer Luis Tejada and Román Torres with two goals each. A total of nine players scored 14 qualifying goals for Panama. Panama also benefited from two own goals. Panama failed to score in six of 16 games.

In the qualifying matches, the following players made their 100th international match: Blas Pérez on November 13, 2015 against Jamaica, Román Torres on November 15, 2016 against Mexico and Luis Tejada on March 24, 2017 against Trinidad and Tobago.

Fourth round

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goal scorers for Panama
11/13/2015	Kingston	Jamaica	-	Panama	0: 2 (0: 1)	Armando Cooper (42.), Own goal Jamaica (52.)
11/17/2015	Panama City	Panama	-	Costa Rica	1: 2 (0: 0)	Luis Tejada (71st)
03/25/2016	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	-	Panama	0-0
03/29/2016	Panama City	Panama	-	Haiti	1: 0 (0: 0)	Felipe Baloy (81st)
02.09.2016	Panama City	Panama	-	Jamaica	2: 0 (1: 0)	Gabriel Torres (28th), Abdiel Arroyo (90th + 2)
09/06/2016	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	Panama	3: 1 (1: 0)	Luis Tejada (90 + 2 / penalty)

Final table of the 4th qualifying round

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Costa Rica	6th	5	1	0	011: 300	+8	16
2.	Panama	6th	3	1	2	007: 500	+2	10
3.	Haiti	6th	1	1	4th	002: 400	−2	04th
4th	Jamaica	6th	1	1	4th	002:100	−8	04th

Fifth round

date	Venue	host		guest	Result	Goal scorers for Panama
11/11/2016	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	-	Panama	0: 1 (0: 1)	Fidel Escobar (22.)
11/15/2016	Panama City	Panama	-	Mexico	0-0
March 24, 2017	Port of Spain	Trinidad and Tobago	-	Panama	1: 0 (1: 0)
03/28/2017	Panama City	Panama	-	United States	1: 1 (1: 1)	Gabriel Gomez (43.)
06/08/2017	San Jose	Costa Rica	-	Panama	0-0
06/13/2017	Panama City	Panama	-	Honduras	2: 2 (1: 1)	Blas Perez (40th), Román Torres (90th)
09/01/2017	Mexico city	Mexico	-	Panama	1: 0 (0: 0)
05.09.2017	Panama City	Panama	-	Trinidad and Tobago	3: 0 (1: 0)	Gabriel Torres (39.), own goal T&T (57.), Abdiel Arroyo (85.)
06.10.2017	Orlando	United States	-	Panama	4: 0 (3: 0)
10/10/2017	Panama City	Panama	-	Costa Rica	2: 1 (0: 1)	Gabriel Torres (52nd), Román Torres (88th)

Final table of the 5th qualifying round

Pl.	team	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Mexico	10	6th	3	1	016: 700	+9	21st
2.	Costa Rica	10	4th	4th	2	014: 800	+6	16
3.	Panama	10	3	4th	3	009:100	−1	13
4th	Honduras	10	3	4th	3	013:190	−6	13
5.	United States	10	3	3	4th	017:130	+4	12
6th	Trinidad and Tobago	10	2	0	8th	007:190	−12	06th

preparation

Games

date	Result	opponent	venue	Goal scorers for Panama
October 25, 2017	5-0	Grenada	St. George's	Carlos Small (2), Alfredo Stephens , Ronaldo Dinolis (2)
9th November 2017	1: 2	Iran	Graz	Gabriel Torres
November 14, 2017	1: 1	Wales	Cardiff	Armando Cooper
March 22, 2018	0: 1	Denmark	Brøndby
March 27, 2018	0: 6	Switzerland	Lucerne
17th April 2018	1-0	Trinidad and Tobago	Couva	Josiel Nuñez
29 May 2018	0-0	Northern Ireland	Panama City
June 6, 2018	0: 1	Norway	Oslo

Remarks:

• Teams in italics are not qualified for the World Cup.
• In the game against Grenada, only one player was used who was also used in a World Cup qualifier.
• In the game against Trinidad & Tobago only two players were used, who were also used in the World Cup qualifiers.

Quarter

The team's quarters were the “Olympic Sports Center” in Saransk , where the team also trained.

Squad

A preliminary roster of 35 players was nominated on May 14th. The final roster of 23 players had to be reported to FIFA by June 4th. No player has played in a World Cup finals since Panama is participating for the first time. From the provisional squad Ricardo Avila , Azmahar Ariano , Rolando Blackburn , Ricardo Buitrago , Miguel Camargo , Adalberto Carrasquilla , José Fajardo , José González Joly , Cristian Martínez , Roberto Nurse , Francisco Palacios and Richard Peralta were not taken into account.

Amílcar Henríquez , who played for Panama in qualifying for the World Cup and would have had a chance to make it into the final squad, died on April 15, 2017 of injuries from a shootout in front of his home. Alberto Quintero dropped out shortly before the start of the tournament due to an injury, Ricardo Avila was nominated for him.

Of all the participants, Panama nominated the most players with at least 100 international matches (7).

position	No.	Surname	birth date	Calls	Gates	society	debut	Last use
goal	12	José Calderón	08/14/1985	32	0	Chorrillo FC MA	2005	05/29/2018
	01	Jaime Penedo	09/26/1981	134	0	Dinamo Bucharest	2003	06/06/2018	3
	22nd	Alex Rodríguez	08/05/1990	6th	0	San Francisco FC	2013	10/25/2017
Defense	23	Felipe Baloy	02/24/1981	102	3	CSD Municipal	2001	05/29/2018	1	1
	03	Hárold Cummings	03/01/1992	51	0	San Jose Earthquakes	2010	03/27/2018	1
	15th	Eric Davis	March 31, 1991	38	0	DAC Dunajská Streda	2010	06/06/2018	2		1
	04th	Fidel Escobar	01/09/1995	23	1	New York Red Bulls	2015	06/06/2018	3		2
	13	Adolfo Machado	02/14/1985	76	1	Houston Dynamo	2008	06/06/2018	1
	02	Michael Murillo	02/11/1996	22nd	1	New York Red Bulls	2016	06/06/2018	2		1
	17th	Luis Ovalle	07.09.1988	25th	0	CD Olimpia	2010	05/29/2018	1
	05	Roman Torres	03/20/1986	110	10	Seattle Sounders	2005	06/06/2018	3
midfield	08th	Edgar Bárcenas	10/23/1993	29	0	Cafetaleros de Tapachula M2C	2014	06/06/2018	3		1
	11	Armando Cooper	11/26/1987	100	7th	CF Universidad de Chile	2006	06/06/2018	2		2
	20th	Aníbal Godoy	02/10/1990	89	1	San Jose Earthquakes	2010	06/06/2018	3		1
	06th	Gabriel Gomez *	05/29/1984	146	12	Atlético Bucaramanga	2003	06/06/2018	3
	14th	Valentin Pimentel	05/30/1991	23	1	CD Plaza Amador	2015	06/06/2018
	19th	Ricardo Avila	01/04/1997	5	0	KAA Gent II	2016	05/30/2018	2		1
	21st	José Luis Rodríguez	06/19/1998	2	0	KAA Gent	2018	06/06/2018	3
Storm	16	Abdiel Arroyo	12/13/1993	33	5	LD Alajuelense	2014	March 22, 2018	2
	10	Ismael Díaz	05/12/1997	11	2	Deportivo La Coruña ↓	2014	06/06/2018	1
	07th	Blow Pérez	03/13/1981	120	42	CSD Municipal	2001	06/06/2018	2
	18th	Luis Tejada **	03/28/1982	106	43	Sport Boys M2 *	2001	05/29/2018	2		1
	09	Gabriel Torres	10/31/1988	74	12	CD Huachipato	2005	06/06/2018	2		1
Trainer		Hernán Darío Gómez	02/03/1956				2014
↑ Numbers according to the official squad list ↑ * = Player is the record international player in Panama, ** Player is the top scorer in Panama ↑ a b Status: June 6, 2018, after the game against Norway, Sources: Panama - Record International Players , Kicker special edition WM 2018 (The stakes vary depending on whether games against non-FIFA members such as Guadeloupe and Martinique are included. ) ↑ MA = Master of the Apertura 2017, M2 * = Master of the 2nd division in the previous year (current season runs until autumn), M2C = Master of the Clausura of the 2nd division, ↓ = The club was relegated from the highest division in the country

Finals

Group draw

Nizhny Novgorod Saransk (VR + Q) Sochi

Panama's venues and quarters (Q)

Panama met in the group G in Belgium , England and Tunisia . Panama had not played against any of the three teams until then.

Group stage / group G matches

→ Main article : Football World Cup 2018 / Group G

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Belgium	3	3	0	0	009: 200	+7	09
2.	England	3	2	0	1	008: 300	+5	06th
3.	Tunisia	3	1	0	2	005: 800	−3	03
4th	Panama	3	0	0	3	002:110	−9	00

Mon, June 18, 2018, 6:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. CEST) in Sochi
Belgium	-	Panama	3: 0 (0: 0)
Sun., June 24, 2018, 3 p.m. (2 p.m. CEST) in Nizhny Novgorod
England	-	Panama	6: 1 (5: 0)	78 ′ Baloy
Thursday, June 28, 2018, 9:00 p.m. (8:00 p.m. CEST) in Saransk
Panama	-	Tunisia	1: 2 (1: 0)	33 ′ Meriah

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: "Panama celebrates, the USA mourns"
2. ↑ fifa.com: 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia - Team Base Camps
3. ↑ fifa.com: Panamá anuncia su lista provisional
4. ↑ Panama midfielder Amilcar Henriquez shot to death on ESPN.us, accessed on May 28, 2017 (English).
5. ↑ Panama star player Alberto Quintero out of World Cup through injury . In: Sports Mole . ( sportsmole.co.uk [accessed June 12, 2018]).
6. ↑ Before World Cup: Panama nominated Ricardo Avila for injured Alberto Quintero . In: Eurosport Germany . June 11, 2018 ( eurosport.de [accessed June 13, 2018]).