# Panama celebrates losing to the US in soccer's Gold Cup

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**Created:** [July 24, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panama-celebrates-losing-to-the-us-in-soccers-gold-cup/313966 "2005-07-24T23:38:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2005, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panama-celebrates-losing-to-the-us-in-soccers-gold-cup/313966/1 "2005-07-24T23:38:51Z")

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Man, the city is going nuts. Everybody is driving up and down the streets around my building honking their horns and waving Panamanian flags out the windows. And this is all because their team just _lost_ to the US in today’s CONCACAF Gold Cup in soccer at the Meadowlands in NJ.

But they’re celebrating because their team put up a really good fight. They fought the US to a 0-0 tie in regulation, then tied them again 0-0 after a 30 minute overtime. The game was decided on penalty kicks, which Panama lost 3-1.

Panama is the smallest country in the competition, and the US is the largest. This has actually been quite the Cinderella (or I should say _Cenicienta_) story. Panama wasn’t given much of a chance to get anywhere close to the final, but they beat Colombia on Friday (the celebration then went on for many hours).

It’s going to be a noisy night.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panama-celebrates-losing-to-the-us-in-soccers-gold-cup/313966/2 "2005-07-25T01:49:23Z")

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They have reason to celebrate; Panama put up one helluva fight. (And really, there isn’t much satisfaction in winning via penalty kicks.)

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panama-celebrates-losing-to-the-us-in-soccers-gold-cup/313966/3 "2005-07-25T13:02:17Z")

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It is always good when the Old Country is in the news.