{"id":661284,"date":"2026-06-27T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661284\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:09:08","slug":"world-cup-2026-who-are-the-panama-players-england-need-to-look-out-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/661284\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Who are the Panama players England need to look out for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Club: Universidad de Concepcion, Chile Age: 35 Position: Forward Caps: 57 Goals: 15<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The veteran forward became known to a wider audience last year after celebrating his stoppage-time winner against the USA in the Concacaf Nations League by climbing on to a TV studio platform and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VQDjQB1I1VQ\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">embracing his idol,, external<\/a> Thierry Henry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was there, and it came out of my heart to go hug and celebrate with him. It was totally natural,&#8221; Waterman says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His emotions also took over in the build-up to the England game when he pushed and shoved team-mate Jose Luis Rodriguez during a disagreement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Waterman had to be restrained by other players as he continued to take issue with  Rodriguez, though head coach Thomas Christiansen played down the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Waterman went six years without a cap from 2013 but has been a squad regular in recent years and is competing with Jose Fajardo for a place in the side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Waterman started against Ghana and came on as a substitute during the defeat by Croatia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This article is the latest from BBC Sport&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/ask-me-anything\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ask Me Anything<\/a> team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Club: Universidad de Concepcion, Chile Age: 35 Position: Forward Caps: 57 Goals: 15 The veteran forward became known&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661284","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\/661284","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=661284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}