‘Like something handed down by God’ – how Panama reached the World Cup | Sid Lowe

Crying ballboys kicked balls into the stands, someone turned the lights out and a woman fainted on the pitch as Panama made it to their first finals by the skin of their teeth“When the goal went in, I could have gone out and got so drunk I wouldn’t have remembered a thing the next day.” You and the rest of the country, Hernán.The Panama manager, Hernán Darío “Bolillo” Gómez, says he is a “believer” and insists he “k