The friendly match will be played this Saturday, October 12 at 8pm, in the Q2 Stadium, in Austin, Texas.
With the memory of the victory in the America’s Cup still fresh in the memory, Panama Senior National Team it returns to its counterpart today United States of America in a friendly match Austin, Texas for FIFA date.
The game will be played at Stadium Q2home of the MLS club, Austin FCand is scheduled to begin at 8:00 pm
This is the 28th time the two countries have won with 17 wins for USA, 7 draws and 3 wins for Panama.
The last time the two teams met was on June 27, when they were leading DT Thomas Christiansen They managed to beat the Stars and Stripes team 2-1 in the Copa América 2024.
The group stage game was played in the Mercedes Benz Stadiumin Atlanta, Georgia, and was decided by goals from César Blackman in the 26th minute and José Fajardo in the 83rd minute.
Both teams are preparing for their games in November for the quarter finals of the CONCACAF Nations League 2024/2025which gives room for the next one Gold Cup 2025 y Final Four 2025.
For the USA, the North American team has a new coach in Argentina Mauricio Pochettinohaving previously coached the Copa América Gregg Berhalter.
For Panama, this will be the third time it plays a friendly as a visitor against the United States on American soil.
The previous two matches were defined by victories for the USA by scores of 2-0 and 3-0.
Panama comes into the game ranked 37th in the FIFA rankings, while the USA is 18th.
After the match, the people led by coach Thomas Christiansen will travel tomorrow Sunday to Toronto, Ontario to face their counterpart from Canada this Tuesday, October 15, in the second friendly on the FIFA date.
As for the USA, the Americans will travel to Guadalajara to face Mexico, also on Tuesday, October 15, in their second warm-up game.
Technical sheet
United States of America vs. Panama
Location: Situation Q2
Place: Austin, Texas
Date: Saturday 12 October
Time: 8:00 p.m
television: Max Television and RPC TV
Color: Panama will wear white, the United States will wear blue
Refereea principal: Katia García (Mex)
Assistant 1: Sandra Ramírez (Mex)
Assistant 2: Karen Díaz Medina (Mex)
Fourth referee: César Ramos (Mex)
Stadium Q2
he Stadium Q2from Austin, Texas, in 2021 and is the home of MLS club Austin FC.
With a capacity for 20,700 fans, this modern sports venue was chosen to host two matches of the game Copa America United States of America 2024.
The first match was Venezuela’s 3-0 win over Jamaica on 30 June.
The second was Costa Rica’s 2-1 win over Paraguay last July 2, which ended group D.
The Austin stadium also hosts Gold Cup matches, World Cup qualifiers and the Nations League.
The USA National Team is undefeated in this stadium and has four wins in four games.
The American team played their first game in this stadium in the semi-finals of the 2021 Gold Cup when they beat Qatar 1-0.
Then, they defeated Jamaica 2-0 on October 7, 2021, in a qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
They also achieved two more wins in Nations League matches when they beat Granada 5-0 and Trinidad and Tobago 3-0, in the quarter finals.
Christiansen vs. United States of America
The Panama National Team faced the United States with Thomas Christiansen on the bench five times.
The Mayor of Panama has a record of 2 wins, 2 losses and a draw with the Spanish-Danish as a coach with 7 goals for and 13 against.
The last two games ended with positive emotions for the Panamanian team.
One of them was for the semi-finals of the 2023 Gold Cup, on July 12, 2023, where Panama reached the final after beating the USA on penalties 5-4, in a match that ended 1-1, at the Snapdragon Stadium, in San . Diego California.
The other was in the group stage of the Copa América 2024 with a 2-1 victory, in a match played on June 27 at the Mercedes Benz Stadium, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Friends in the United States
The national team is preparing to play its third friendly as a visitor on American soil against the Stars and Stripes team.
The previous two ended in 2-0 and 3-0 wins.
The first was played on February 8, 2015 at Dignity Health Sports Park, in Carson, California, with a 2-0 win for the USA.
The two teams then met in another friendly match on January 27, 2019 at the State Farm Stadium in Arizona with a 3-0 win for the locals.
List called (Club/Country/Matches/Goals)
RESERVE
Orlando Mosquera (Al-Fahya FC/KSA; 0/29); César Samudio (CD Marathon/HON; 3/0); John Gunn (Northern Revolution II/USA; 0/0).
DEFENSE
Iván Anderson (Fortaleza /COL; 10/1); Michael Murillo (Olympique Marseille/FRA; 77/9); César Blackman (Slovakia Bratislava/SVK; 1/25); Edgardo Fariña (FK Khimki/RUS; 7/0); Jiovany Ramos (Alliance Lima/PER; 12/0); Fidel Escobar (Deportivo Saprissa/CRC; 80/3); Roderick Miller (Turan Tovuz IK/AZE; 45/2); Carlos Harvey (Minnesota United/USA; 7/1).
STEERING WHEELS
Aníbal Godoy (Nashville SC/USA; 139/4); Adalberto Carrasquilla (Houston Dynamo/USA; 59/2); Cristian Martínez (Kiryat Shmona/ISR; 46/1); José Luis Rodríguez (FC Juárez/MEX; 49/6); Édgar Bárcenas (Mazatlán FC/MEX; 91/8); Freddy Gondola (FK Aktobe/KAZ); 22/1); Abdiel Ayarza (The Strong/BOL; 4/32); Kahiser Lenis (Jaguars de Córdoba/COL; 6/2); Ricardo Phillips Jr. (Define SC/ECU; 6/0).
FORWARD
José Fajardo (Catholic University/ECU; 51/13); Eduardo Guerrero (FC Dynamo Kyiv/UKR; 1/14); Tomás Rodríguez (Monagas SC/VEN; 2/0).