The national team is located in group C, along with the selections of Panama, Jamaica and Guadalupe. The tournament will serve technician Luis Fernando Tena As an essay to face the matches of the World Cup tie, which will begin in September.
The Gold Cup will be played, between July 6, in 14 stadiums, Distributed in 11 headquarters, from the United States and Canada. Guatemala’s debut in the 2025 edition will be Monday, against Jamaica, starting at 8 pm, in Carson, California.
The second game of the group stage will be solved in front of Panama, on June 20, at Stadium Q2, Austin, Texas, and will close against Guadalupe, on June 24, in the duel scheduled at the Shell Energy stadium, Houston. The first two places in the group will advance to the quarterfinals.
Guatemala’s best performance in a Gold Cup was in 1996, When he reached the semifinal round, under the technical direction of the Argentine Juan Ramón Verón, “
On three occasions it has reached the quarterfinal phase: 2007, 2011 and 2023. Now, Tena’s goal is to take the Guatemalan selected to the final instances and consolidate the eleven holder for the World Cup classification matches.
Tena’s team
The Tena coach will have as his spine for this year’s Gold Cup to the goalkeeper Columbus Crew American Nicholas Hagen and defenders Nicolás Samayoa (Polyitehnica Iași Romanian) and Aaron Herrera (American DC United).
In the middle of the court the Mexican coach has worked with José Ardón and Óscar Castellanos, both of Antigua, current Guatemalan champion; and in the striker Óscar Santis, of the same team, and Archimides Ordóñez, of Zimbru ChișinĂu of the First Division of Moldova.
Overcoming the group’s round will not be easy for Guatemala.
On the way Jamaica appears, a rival who has historically gone through the Guatemalans in the throat. And also Panama, located among the best selections in Central America in recent years.
Tena was hired in 2021 with the aim of bringing Guatemala to his first World Cup in the absolute category, a dream that still seems distant according to the performance shown during the last four years.
With EFE information