{"id":605782,"date":"2026-05-27T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605782\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:29:10","slug":"world-cup-2026-panama-pick-norwich-citys-jose-cordoba-in-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605782\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Panama pick Norwich City&#8217;s Jose Cordoba in World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norwich City defender Jose Cordoba has been picked in Panama&#8217;s squad for this summer&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cordoba, 24, who joined the Canaries in 2024 and played 30 times this season, is the only UK-based player among the 26-strong squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Panama are in Group L with England &#8211; who they meet in New Jersey on 27 June &#8211; Croatia and Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are making their second appearance at the tournament, having qualified for Russia in 2018 when they were also in England&#8217;s group, exiting without winning a point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Panama squad in full: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goalkeepers: Orlando Mosquera, Luis Mejia, Cesar Samudio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defenders: Cesar Blackman, Jorge Gutierrez, Amir Murillo, Fidel Escobar, Andres Andrade, Edgardo Farina, Jose Cordoba, Eric Davis, Jiovany Ramos, Roderick Miller.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Midfielders: Anibal Godoy, Adalberto Carrasquilla, Carlos Harvey, Cristian Martinez, Jose Luis Rodriguez, Cesar Yanis, Yoel Barcenas, Alberto Quintero, Azarias Londono.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forwards: Ismael Diaz, Cecilio Waterman, Jose Fajardo, Tomas Rodriguez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norwich City defender Jose Cordoba has been picked in Panama&#8217;s squad for this summer&#8217;s World Cup. Cordoba, 24,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}