“The truth is that Panamanians do not need much to celebrate. And today it must be an absolute party in the entire country. The day after the Guadeloupe game, the first thing that I said to[the players] is that we were going to win against the United States. We were convinced and we had the belief that we could win and it proved itself true here.”

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