Who is the youngest player and who has the most International Caps at the Men’s Pan American Cup in Brampton, Canada?
The average age of the 143 players (Mexico has only 17 players on their roster) participating in the Men’s Pan American Cup in Brampton is 24.2 years old. The youngest team is Mexico (21.8), while the oldest team is Argentina (27.3).
Uruguay player Patricio Draper is the oldest player at 38, 2 years older than Mexican Captain Oscar Hernández (36). At the other end of the age spectrum, Mexican rookie goalkeeper José Hernández is the youngest player at 16, just one month younger than his teammate Alex Valdes and 2 months younger than another rookie goalkeeper, Kwesi Emmanuel from Trinidad & Tobago.
There are 21 teenagers in the competition (2 for Brazil, 3 for Canada, 1 for Chile, 5 for Mexico, 3 for Trinidad & Tobago, 4 for Uruguay and 3 for the USA). Only Argentina has no teenager.
The average number of International Caps is 46.8. The team with the least international experience is Mexico (with an average of 16.7 International Caps), while the most experienced team is Argentina (with an average of 84.2 International Caps).
Not surprisingly, Argentina is both the oldest and most experienced team in the competition, and Mexico is both the youngest and least experienced team.
The most capped player in the competition is Trinidad & Tobago star Kwan Browne, with 287 international appearances. Only Matias Paredes (Argentina) has also more than 200 Caps and there are 4 other players with more than 150 Caps (Lucas Rey and Juan Martin Lopez for Argentina, David Jameson and Scott Tupper for Canada), with Argentinian Pedro Ibarra set to join the +150 club during the Pan American Cup.
At the other end of the experience spectrum, 13 players are making their international debuts in this competition (1 for Brazil, 2 for Canada, 6 for Mexico, 2 for Trinidad & Tobago, 1 for Uruguay and 1 for the USA).
Interestingly, Mexico has a reduced roster (only 17 players) but have 3 goal-keepers.
