Manuel Arias, president of the Panamanian Football Federation, highlighted the level of the Mexican team and classified the ‘Tri’ as a team that is located within the top 5 worldwide.
Both Panama and Mexico are coming from achieving their triumphs. The Central Americans prevailed against Jamaica, while Mexico was able to overtake Costa Rica. However, Arias confessed that Mexico has resources that Panamanian footballers do not have, but despite that, they will seek to play with humility to try to achieve a good result .
“Mexico is probably a Top 5 team in the world in my opinion, it is a team that has a large coaching staff, many resources that a nation like Panama does not have, It also has many legionaries and nationals that we do not have here, here we are all Panamanians, there are no Argentines, but hey, they are part of things, and we go with humility and little by little, ”Arias told TUDN.
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Although he also confessed that it will be difficult to dominate Mexico, Arias assured that they use games against Mexico to measure evolution that the Panama national team has had.
“Mexico is the giant of Concacaf, it is a reality , no It is only the federation that has more resources, more players abroad, it is the league that pays the best in Concacaf and that is shown, today after two games Mexico is leading. I think nobody expected Panama to be in second but everyone expected Mexico to be in first and is in first “, he concluded.