Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport.
The Mexico national football team represents Mexico in international football and is governed by the Mexican Football Federation. It competes as a member of CONCACAF.
The Greece women's national football team represents Greece in international women's football. The only international tournament the team took place in were the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Automatically qualified as hosts, Greece lost all three matches in their group without scoring a goal.
Alberto Abdiel Quintero Medina is a Panamanian professional footballer who plays for C.D. Plaza Amador and the Panama national team as a winger.
Shirley Cruz Traña is a retired Costa Rican professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Alajuelense of the Costa Rican Women's Premier Division and the Costa Rica women's national football team. A creative midfielder who often acts as a deep-lying playmaker, Cruz is the second-ever female footballer behind Gabriela Trujillo from Costa Rica to play in Europe when she joined Lyon in 2005.
Football in Panama is run by the Federación Panameña de Fútbol. The association administers the national football team, as well as the LPF. Football is the most popular sport in Panama. Panama qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
The Panama women's national football team represents Panama in international women's football. The team is overseen by the Federación Panameña de Fútbol. Panama has made four appearances at the CONCACAF Women's Championship, with their best result being the semi-final finish in 2018. In 2023, Panama made their debut in the FIFA Women's World Cup, finishing last in Group F.
Natalia Kuikka is a Finnish professional footballer who plays as a defender for the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Finland national team. She was named the Finnish Footballer of the Year in 2022 by Finnish sports journalists.
Marta Alexandra Cox Villarreal is a Panamanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Panama women's national team. She is nicknamed Keky.
Kadidiatou Diani is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Première Ligue club Lyon and the France national team.
The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process decided all 24 teams which played in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the hosts France qualifying automatically. It is the eighth FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. The tournament is the third to be hosted in Europe, after the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden and the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany.
The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship was the 6th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organized by CONCACAF for the women's under-17 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was initially to be hosted by Nicaragua, and was planned to take place between 19 – 29 April 2018, as announced by CONCACAF on 5 December 2017. A total of eight teams participated in the tournament.
The 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship was the 10th edition of the CONCACAF Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organized by CONCACAF for the women's national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. Eight teams played in the tournament, which took place from 4 to 17 October 2018 in the United States.
In the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process, one spot in the final tournament was allocated to the winner of a two-legged home-and-away play-off between the fourth-placed team from CONCACAF (Panama) and the third-placed team from CONMEBOL (Argentina).
Yomira Tibisay Pinzón Ríos is a Panamanian footballer who plays as a defender for Costa Rican club Deportivo Saprissa and the Panama women's national team. She is nicknamed Yomi.
Karla Paola Riley Serracín is a Panamanian footballer who plays as a forward for Liga MX Femenil club Cruz Azul and the Panama women's national team. She is nicknamed La emperatriz del gol.
Lineth Isabel Cedeño Valderrama is a Panamanian professional footballer who plays as a forward for the Panama women's national team. She is nicknamed Palito.
Erika Janeth Hernández Díaz is a Panamanian footballer who plays as a forward for CD Plaza Amador and the Panama women's national team. She is nicknamed Siri.
Katherine Lineth Castillo Macías is a Panamanian footballer who plays as a right back for Tauro FC and the Panama women's national team. She is nicknamed Kathyson.
María Natalia Mauleón Piñón is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Liga MX Femenil side Club América and the Mexico women's national football team.
