Panama U-23 Roster:
GOALKEEPERS: Luis Mejía (Fénix, URU), Alex Rodríguez (Sporting SM)
DEFENDERS: Alberto Quezada (Chepo FC), Carlos Rodríguez (FC Dallas, USA), Edward Benítez (Sporting SM), Harold Cummings (River Plate, URU), Sergio Thompson (Sporting SM), Roderick Miller (San Francisco FC), Rolando Algandona (San Francisco FC)
MIDFIELDERS: Érick Davis (Fénix, URU), Javier Cedeńo (Alianza FC), Aníbal Godoy (Godoy Cruz, ARG), Juan De Gracia (Chepo FC), Marcos Sánchez (Tauro FC), Roderick Paul (Árabe Unido), Manuel Asprilla (Tigres UANL, MEX)
FORWARDS: Cecilio Waterman (Fénix, URU), Yairo Glaize Yau (Sporting SM), Amir Waithe (San Francisco FC), Víctor Barrera (Titán de Texistepeque, SLV)
Panama U-23s include Gold Cup quartet
Panama manager Julio Dely Valdes will return four members of his Canaleros side that reached the semifinals of last year's Gold Cup when "La Marea Roja" attempts to qualify for the London Olympics.
Dely Valdes on Thursday chose goalkeeper Luis Mejia, defender Harold Cummings and midfielders Erick Davis and Anibal Godoy for his 20-man roster that will begin play next week at the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament.
Along with Mejia, Cummings and Davis, the team also includes six members of Panama's team that finished fourth at the 2010 CONCACAF Under-20 Championship in Guatemala.
Besides Panama, Dely Valdes has drawn players from clubs in Uruguay, the United States, Argentina, Mexico and El Salvador.
As with several teams in the March 22-April 2 event in Nashville, Tennesse; Carson, California; and Kansas City, Kansas, Panama will have some notable absences, including Allan Hernandez of Italian first-division club Chievo and Rolando Blackburn of Senica in Slovakia.
Clubs are not obligated to release players for CONCACAF Olympic qualifying since it is not part of FIFA's coordinated international fixture calendar.
Panama will play in Group B at CONCACAF qualifying in The Home Depot Center in Carson, facing Mexico, defending champion Honduras and Trinidad and Tobago. Panama has never qualified for the Olympics, finishing as high as fourth in the inaugural CONCACAF qualifying event in 1964.
CONCACAF.COM