Yoel Bárcenas

Yoel Bárcenas is a winger named in Thomas Christiansen's final 26-man Panama squad for the 2026 World Cup, listed among the midfielders. Full name Édgar Yoel Bárcenas Herrera, he is 32 at kick-off and plays his club football in Liga MX with Mazatlán FC. He brings 98 senior Panama caps and eight international goals into the tournament, with both figures recorded up to the squad announcement on 26 May 2026.

Panama face England, Croatia and Ghana in Group L, with a meeting with England at MetLife Stadium on 27 June. Thomas Christiansen's side qualified by winning their CONCACAF third-round group on 18 November 2025, and Bárcenas is one of the midfielders he named in that confirmed 26-man squad.

Bárcenas is a winger who can also play in central midfield, the role he fills for Mazatlán FC in Liga MX, where he scored three goals in the 2025-26 season. That is the position in which Thomas Christiansen named him among Panama's midfielders for the 2026 World Cup.

At 32, his international record for Panama stands at eight goals in 98 caps, a wide midfielder's contribution built up across his senior career with Panama.

Yoel Bárcenas gives Panama a wide midfielder in their Goal Rush squad: a winger who can play in central midfield, with eight goals in 98 caps for Panama and his club football at Mazatlán FC in Liga MX. That spread of work across the front and middle is the contribution he offers the team pick. Panama's £10m place sits in Tier 4, a low-band call within the game's £200m card budget, and the Group L draw sets the early fixtures for that pick.