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Thanks for your message, just saw it this morning.

The thing is, is Panama isn’t a bad international squad, the’ve been runnersup in two relatively recent CONCACAF Gold Cups:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONCACAF_Gold_Cup , 2005 and 2013.

Also: http://eloratings.net/Panama.htm

Panama defeated USA in June 2011 in the USA, a loss in the Gold Cup that was avenged in the final. So, Panama is not a pushover. Costa Rica is no pushover for Mexico.

Though Costa Rica and USA don’t have a whole lot to play for, unless I see them sending in their 2nd stringers and one might want to protect the top players anyway, I’d think both will make a game effort, Costa Rica doesn’t like Mexico either, we’re playing away to Panama and lost the last time in Central America to Costa Rica fairly badly, 3-1.

Glad I was able to answer that post because this gives me a chance to just say (unrelated),

At times, I really think our former coach Bob Bradley should get out of Egypt, look at those guards in the picture here: http://www.aljazeera.com/sport/football/2013/10/bradley-ready-next-egyptian-challenge-20131015132651610582.html

Good luck to him, an Egyptian coach was shot at and thankfully not hit in Libya: http://www.worldsoccer.com/247/coach-shot-libya

And I agree with Ghana, they should not play a play-off game in Egypt, no way, fans could hardly travel there and feel safe.

Leg 1 is in Ghana today: http://us.soccerway.com/matches/2013/10/15/africa/wc-qualifying-africa/ghana/egypt/1593329/?ICID=HP_MS_01_01

The 2nd leg is scheduled for Egypt in November.

Even Libyan and Egyptian and Egyptian and Algerian fans have skirmished there, in fact, last World Cup, the bus carrying the Algerian team was stoned in Egypt and some players got bloodied though no significant injuries.