{"id":117021,"date":"2026-04-21T22:41:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/dominican-republic-vs-panama-key-friendly-match-towards-the-2026-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:41:58","slug":"dominican-republic-vs-panama-key-friendly-match-towards-the-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/dominican-republic-vs-panama-key-friendly-match-towards-the-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic vs Panama: Key Friendly Match Towards the 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Dominican Republic to Face Panama in Key Friendly<\/h2>\n\nThe Dominican Republic national team will face Panama on June 3rd in a friendly match of vital importance. This match will serve as final preparation for the Panamanian team before their participation in the 2026 World Cup.\n\nThe match will take place at the Rommel Fern\u00e1ndez Guti\u00e9rrez Stadium. This friendly will mark the closing of the preparation phase at home for the team led by Thomas Christiansen, according to information provided by the Panamanian Football Federation.\n\nPanama will take advantage of this commitment to refine details on the road to the World Cup, where it will debut on June 17. Previously, it will face Brazil on May 31 in Rio de Janeiro.\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History and FIFA Ranking<\/h2>\n\n\nIn the history of matches between both teams, Panama leads with five victories in six games. They have scored 11 goals, while the Dominican Republic has scored three, with one draw recorded.\n\nAccording to the most recent FIFA ranking, Panama is in 33rd position, while the Dominican Republic is in 143rd place. This difference reflects the current competitive level between both teams.\n\nThe last encounter between these teams occurred in the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where Panama won 3-0 on June 8, 2021, at the Rod Carew Stadium.\n\nThis friendly offers a new opportunity for the Dominican selection to face a higher-level rival and continue its development in the international arena.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Republic to Face Panama in Key Friendly The Dominican Republic national team will face Panama on June 3rd in a friendly match of vital importance. This match will serve as final preparation for the Panamanian team before their participation in the 2026 World Cup. The match will take place at the Rommel Fern\u00e1ndez Guti\u00e9rrez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1271,3730,4171,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-117021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-friendly","10":"tag-panama","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}