Panama U-23 and its mission at the Maurice Revello Cup

Choice Panama up to 23 years debut today against Ivory Coast in the Maurice Revello Cup formerly known as (hope from Toulon), with the main goal of surpassing last year’s invitational tournament held in France.

The national team led by coach Jorge Dely Valdés will meet the Ivory Coast team at (10:30 a.m. Panama time) at the Parsemain stadium, which will be their debut in the French championship.

Panama who trained for at least four days in France, hope to improve on the seventh position they reached last year when they beat Comoros 4-1, when they were led by Spaniard David Dóniga.

Now in this championship the strategist of Colón Jorge Dely Valdes check out the tournament Maurice Revello as a great challenge and shows his pride to represent Panama again.

Dely Valdes who has leadership experience Panama in the U-17 and U-20 World Cups, in addition to advancing to the rounds in those World Cups of different categories, they are now looking with the U-23s to be able to pull off another feat, advancing to the finals of the French invitational tournament.

Ivory Coast It is a complicated, strong team and the Panamanian players know it.

game against Ivory Coast, “It will be an extremely difficult game, they have important players. It will be a game of mistakes, whoever makes the least will win,” said the midfielder of the bull fighter Moises Velizat the training of the national team in France.

The eleventh African team is led by Soualiho Haidara, he is on the bench in eleven games, with five wins, three draws, two losses, and the last game he played was against Togo, which he won 4-1.

Panama in the current tournament Maurice Revello was seeded in the Group C, will have their second game against Japan on June 10, and closes participation in the regular round against Morocco three days later.

Tournament Maurice Revello It is divided into three groups, and only the leaders from each group and the best runners-up from all groups advance to the semi-finals.

Other teams, depending on their general location, will have to face each other to define positions.