the selection of Mexico was about to star in a ridiculous capital during the qualifiers for Brazil 2014. The United States, Costa Rica and Honduras qualified with the direct ticket while the Aztecs had to play the playoffs and did so thanks to the victory of the North. Americans on Panama.
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Graham Suzy he became the hero for the Mexicans and the bad guy for the Panamanians during that last game of this tie, as his both gave way to the ” Tri ‘to play the second leg against New Zealand and leaving the canaleros eliminated … but this story had to have a different protagonist.
Julio Dely Valdés, Technician of Panama, He confessed to TUDN that they had a spontaneous one ready for him to stop the match just when United States he will watch his team’s goal, but that person did not follow the plan.
” These are anecdotes that I can tell about the match in the United States, because we too had planned to stop the game when the referee got up and said, ‘These are the minutes left in the match.’ From there, we had a person ready to enter the camp, ” he began by explaining Valdés.
” When that person came in before the U.S. equalizer was scored, he came in midfield and was hugged by Blas Perez, but he didn’t intervene in the game and the game was close to our area, lateral center, goal and tie. This person must have entered a few seconds earlier. These are anecdotes that stay here, they are experiences that you live and then learn from them. Panama learned a lot, because in the next qualifiers it was a more mature selection and we qualify ”, explained the DT.
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Panama he stayed at home watching the 2014 World Cup on TV, but managed to qualify four years later in Russia 2018. Dely Valdés considers that this selection already had more experience.
” Panama in the next round practically ran into the same, but this time it was to go directly to the World Cup, the last was for the playoffs. In the final minutes Panama stopped the game, it was no longer played, once it got ahead of the game in the 87th minute it no longer played. That served as an experience, ” he says.
Jiménez’s Chileans against Panama
However, Dely Valdés believes that not attending the 2014 World Cup was not to fall against United States, But for defeat in front Mexico in the Aztec Stage with the remembered Chilean of Raúl Jiménez.
” In my coaching stage that had to change, so we faced Mexico four times, we won two, we tied once and we lost one. Everyone talks that we against the United States missed the opportunity to go to the playoffs. The game that leaves us out is the game of Mexico that we lost, it is what leaves us out of the playoffs, because Mexico was a direct rival of Panama, and this game that we lost with the Chilean goal of Jiménez. We lost 1-0, tied and had two options to win it. Then there was a play that is why we lost a ball in the left sector, quick transition and goal, ” he recalled.