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Two longtime stalwarts of Panama's national football team acknowledged in Guatemala that the squad has an enormous task ahead of it in this summer's World Cup but said it would will do its utmost to rise to the challenge. Panama had never before qualified for football's premier tournament and its chances of doing so seemed distant heading into the last set of matches of the fifth and final round of qualifying in the Concacaf (North, Central America and Caribbean) region, reports Efe.