{"id":508611,"date":"2026-05-26T15:08:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/panama-presents-its-list-of-26-with-the-surprise-of-the-historic-negrito-quintero\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:08:56","slug":"panama-presents-its-list-of-26-with-the-surprise-of-the-historic-negrito-quintero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/panama-presents-its-list-of-26-with-the-surprise-of-the-historic-negrito-quintero\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama presents its list of 26 with the surprise of the historic ‘Negrito’ Quintero"},"content":{"rendered":"Panama City (EFE).- The return of the historic midfielder Alberto ‘Negrito’ Quintero marked this Tuesday the presentation of the list of 26 players called up by Thomas Christiansen to represent Panama in the FIFA World Cup 2026, which includes Adalberto ‘Coco’ Carrasquilla, whose presence generated doubts in the last hours due to an injury that turned out to be less serious than it seemed.\n\n\n

You may be interested in<\/strong>: https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/futbol\/espana-ira-al-mundial-2026-sin-jugadores-del-real-madrid-por-primera-vez-en-su-historia\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nQuintero integrates a call-up that maintains the base of the team that obtained the ticket to the World Cup, with references such as Carrasquilla, An\u00edbal Godoy, Michael Amir Murillo, Jos\u00e9 Fajardo and Cecilio Waterman.\n\n‘Negrito’ Quintero returns to the Panamanian national team\n\n\n

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El seleccionador de Panam\u00e1, Thomas Christiansen, anuncia la lista oficial de jugadores convocados para el Mundial 2026, en Ciudad de Panam\u00e1 (Panam\u00e1). EFE\/ Bienvenido Velasco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe experienced midfielder, currently a player for Plaza Amador in local football, returns to the national team after not having been part of the recent process led by coach Christiansen.\n\nHis call also has a special symbolic charge, after missing the last World Cup due to an injury suffered in the friendly against Denmark. His present in local football and his international experience ended up convincing the Spanish-Danish coach.\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\nCristiansen thus cleared up the doubts about the final list after several days of concentration with an expanded group of 29 players, from which three players were left out and will remain as reserves, including the Botafogo Brazilian striker Kadir Barr\u00eda, during the preparation prior to the tournament.\n\nDuring the presentation \u2014accompanied by a video in which the surnames of those summoned appeared\u2014 the coach highlighted the group’s commitment and assured that the list responds “to the footballing moment, to the team’s balance and to the competitive capacity of the squad, with the aim that Panama surpasses its performance in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.\n\n\n

The Panama Canal hosted the official announcement<\/h2>\n\n\nThe call was announced at an event held on the steps of the Panama Canal Administration Building, in the Panamanian capital.\n\nThe administrator of the Panama Canal, Ricaurte V\u00e1squez, described the day as special and compared it to the historic December 31, 1999, when Panamanians celebrated the operation of the interoceanic route by the hand of the U.S., which built and administered it for almost the entire 20th century.\n\n\n
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El seleccionador de Panam\u00e1, Thomas Christiansen, anuncia la lista oficial de jugadores convocados para el Mundial 2026, en Ciudad de Panam\u00e1 (Panam\u00e1). EFE\/ Bienvenido Velasco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n“We look forward to celebrating that fourth game,” when we advance to the next round, V\u00e1squez affirmed.\n\nPanama will debut on June 17th against Ghana at the Toronto Stadium, in Canada, for Group L, which it also shares with Croatia and England.\n\n\n

Panamanian fans dream of surpassing Russia 2018<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Panamanian team will play a series of friendly matches against Brazil, Dominican Republic and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as part of the preparation before settling in their base camp in Ontario.\n\nThe unveiling of the list was followed with anticipation by the Panamanian fans, excited about a new participation in the maximum showcase of world football.\n\n\n

\u00a0Panama’s Squad for the 2026 World Cup \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\udde6\u26bd<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Posici\u00f3n<\/th>Jugadores<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
\ud83e\udde4 Porteros<\/strong><\/td>Orlando Mosquera, Luis Mej\u00eda, C\u00e9sar Samudio<\/td><\/tr>
\ud83d\udee1\ufe0f Defensas<\/strong><\/td>C\u00e9sar Blackman, Jorge Guti\u00e9rrez, Michael Amir Murillo, Jos\u00e9 C\u00f3rdoba, Fidel Escobar, Andr\u00e9s Andrade, Edgardo Fari\u00f1a, Eric Davis, Jiovanny Ramos, Roderick Miller<\/td><\/tr>
\u2699\ufe0f Centrocampistas<\/strong><\/td>Adalberto Carrasquilla, An\u00edbal Godoy, Christian Mart\u00ednez, Edgar Yoel B\u00e1rcenas, Carlos Harvey, Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez, C\u00e9sar Yanis, Alberto Quintero, Azar\u00edas Londo\u00f1o<\/td><\/tr>
\ud83c\udfaf Delanteros<\/strong><\/td>Ismael D\u00edaz, Cecilio Waterman, Jos\u00e9 Fajardo, Tom\u00e1s Rodr\u00edguez<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\ud83d\udccc Veteran Alberto Quintero returns to the squad with World Cup experience and offensive leadership for Panama’s second historic participation in a World Cup.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Panama City (EFE).- The return of the historic midfielder Alberto ‘Negrito’ Quintero marked this Tuesday the presentation of the list of 26 players called up by Thomas Christiansen to represent Panama in the FIFA World Cup 2026, which includes Adalberto ‘Coco’ Carrasquilla, whose presence generated doubts in the last hours due to an injury that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":508613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,41186],"class_list":["post-508611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-28jp","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/000-32.webp","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/05\/000-32.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}