National Soccer
The Guatemala selection is concentrated in the facilities of the High Performance Center with a view to its calendar: it will play three games in nine days and travel more than seven thousand kilometers.
The Guatemala selection will play against Honduras and twice against Guyana in a period of nine days. (Free Press Photo: Marcos Gálvez)
The Guatemala team is already training at the facilities of the High Performance Center (CAR) of the National Football Federation on the occasion of preparing for the next duels that it will hold on the FIFA date of March 2025.
The Guatemalan team started with the jobs on Monday, March 10 And he will be training under the eye of coach Luis Fernando Tena until day 14, date on which the Mexican coach will determine the call for the first of three games that the bicolor will hold in the month.
The first meeting of the Guatemala team in March 2025 will be Sunday 16, when he faced a friendly to the team of Honduras in Fort Lauderdale, United States.
In this match, Luis Fernando Tena will seek to refine details for the double match eliminatory series that will play against Guyana in the Gold Cup 2025 of the Concacaf.
These two games will be vital in the Tena era project, since the Gold Cup would be lost would be a hard blow to the Guatemalan fans, which still has the elimination in the 2024 League of Nations at the hands of Costa Rica.
Marathon calendar
The Guatemala national team has not played a match since October 2024, but the start in 2025 will be with everything, and with how tight the club calendar is, this could physically have an impact on the bicolor.
Guatemala will play his first game of the year on Sunday, March 16 against Honduras in Fort Lauderdale, so to get there the Bicolor must take a flight and travel approximately 1,600 kilometers.
Then, on March 21, the Bicolor will face Guyana in the visitor at Wildey Turf, which is located in Barbados, which is a transfer of at least two thousand 601 kilometers.
Finally, on March 25 Guatemala will receive Guyana at the Cementos Progreso stadium, which means a third transfer of at least three thousand 300km.
In total, Guatemala selection It would mobilize about seven thousand 500 kilometers in a period of Just nine days in which he would play three games in three different countries.
Overcoming this tight calendar and the fatigue that players can face will be one of the remains that Luis Fernando Tena must overcome to reach the Gold Cup 2025.
