/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/diarioas/DKDQHXJNLGP3N4NHUM4JBA2YZY.jpg "Colombia begins the search for the Women’s Gold Cup against Panama")
Although the great goal of 2024 for the Colombia Women’s National Team is the Olympic Games, the Concacaf Women’s Gold Cup, to which it arrived as a guest for the runners-up of the Copa América 2022, is a unique opportunity to add a new title to the record. of the national team and the best way to start preparing for the tournaments.
This Wednesday, the team led by Ángelo Marsiglia will play its first match of the year and will begin its participation in the competition by facing the Panama National Team at the Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego for the first day of Group B, which they also share with Brazil and Puerto Rico.
This will be the first edition of the contest, which will have the participation of 12 teams, four of them invited from Conmebol. There will be three groups of four teams, where the two best from each zone and the two best third parties will advance to later face each other in the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals until the champion of the championship is known.
Colombia, without knowing the defeat against Panama
The Colombian National Team has faced the Panamanian National Team on two occasions, leaving a balance of one game won and one tied. Both matches were played in June 2023 and were the last friendlies before the Tricolor’s participation in the Australia – New Zealand 2023 World Cup.
The first match was in Panama City and the national team won 2-0 with goals from Catalina Usme and Daniela Montoya, while the second game was four days later at Pascual Guerrero and ended in a 1-1 draw. with goals from Catalina Usme and Karla Riley.
In relation to their other group rivals, this will be the first time they face Puerto Rico, while with Brazil they have never been able to achieve victory, leaving a balance of one draw and nine losses.
“We have an excellent team”
Angelo Marsiglia, technical director of the Colombia Women’s National Team, previously explained the good preparation that has been carried out for 2024 and assured that the entire team is with the mentality of making history in the W Gold Cup. He also highlighted the importance of the most recent microcycle .
“We are going with the conviction of going to compete, of representing our country very well, we have an excellent team. The mentality is very strong. I think that the characteristics of our players are that they are very competitive and we must take advantage of that. We must take advantage of it in the sense that those leaders who are the ones who most mark that character infect the youth who have been developing and competing at the international level,” he stated.
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The match between the Panama National Team and the Colombian National Team, valid for the first day of Group B of the Concacaf Women’s Gold Cup, will be played this Wednesday, February 21 at 7:30 pm (Colombian time) at the Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego, in California.
Possible formation Colombia: Natalia Giraldo, Manuela Vanegas, Daniela Arias, Jorelyn Carabalí, Carolina Arias, Marcela Restrepo, Lorena Bedoya, Daniela Montoya, Liana Salazar, Catalina Usme and Ivonne Chacón.