The coach of the Selection of Panama, Thomas Christiansen, Called up 28 players this Wednesday for the first games of the octagon Concacaf, Classifiers for Qatar-2022, in which the channelers will face Costa Rica, Jamaica and Mexico in search of a ticket to their second World Cup.
To start the octagonal, the Danish Hispanic coach combines players who were already in Russia-2018 with a group of promising young people, in an attempt to rejuvenate a team that presented one of the oldest average payrolls at the last World Cup.
In the journey of getting another feat, he will have to receive in Costa Rica on September 2, visit Jamaica on the 5th and close at home on the 8th against Mexico.
In the call, disseminated by the Panamanian Football Federation, José Luis Rodríguez and Édgar Bárcenas, from the Spanish teams Sporting de Gijón and Leganés, respectively, stand out.
Both strikers, who already know what it’s like to participate in a World Cup, are called to lead the new generation of Panamanian footballers alongside midfielder Adalberto Carrasquilla, of the Houston Dynamor MLS.
They are joined by the already experienced defenders of the Belgian Anderlecht, Michael Amir Murillo, and the Alcorcón of Spain, Fidel Escobar, as well as the veteran and incombustible midfielders Aníbal Godoy of Nashville of the MLS and Alberto Quintero of the University of Peru.
The list also includes nine players who have been called up for the first time by Christiansen. In the same way, the absence of Gabriel Torres, footballer of the Pumas of Mexico, is the one that stands out more in the Canalero list that will have to face the initial date of eliminatory without one of its maximum figures.
– Call of Panama –
archers: Luis Mejía (Phoenix, Uruguay), José Calderón (San Francisco) and Orlando Mosquera (Always Ready, Bolivia)
defenses: Michael Amir Murillo (Anderlecht, Belgium), César Blackman (DAC 1904, Slovakia), Fidel Escobar (Alcorcón, Spain), Jiovany Ramos (Atlético Venezuela, Venezuela), Azmahar Ariano (Sullana Alliance, Peru), Andrés Andrade (Lask Linz , Austria), Óscar Linton (Imabari, Japan), Éric Davis (DAC 1904, Slovakia), Iván Anderson (University) and Jorge Gutiérrez (Taurus)
Flyers: Edgar Bárcenas (Leganés, Spain), Adalberto Carrasquilla (Houston Dynamo, USA), Aníbal Godoy (Nashville, USA), José Luis Rodríguez (Sporting de Gijón, Spain), Alberto Quintero (University, Peru), César Yanis (CD De east), Carlos Harvey (LA Galaxy II, USA), Abdiel Ayarza (Cienciano, Peru), Romeesh Ivey (Etar Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria) and Eduardo Guerrero (Maccabi Tel Aviv, Israel)
forwards: Rolando Blackburn (The Strongest, Bolivia), Cecilio Waterman (Everton, Chile), José Fajardo (October 9, Ecuador), Alfredo Stephens (Aragua, Venezuela) and Jair Catuy (Always Ready, Bolivia).