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Aria Nagai

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2001-12-08 (age 24)
Height:: 160 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 16 GP · 675 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2026: -0.546 — ranked 336 of 385 Composite page →

Standard Stats

			Playing Time			Performance									Per 90
Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	GS	Min	Gls	Ast	PK	Sh	SoT	KP	Pass%	CrdY	CrdR	Gls/90	G+A/90
1	2025	Royals	11	7	582	0	0	0	1	0	3	70.1	1	0	0.00	0.00
2	2026	Royals	5	1	93	0	0	0	1	0		75.7	1	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		16	8	675	0	0	0	2	0	3	71.0	2	0	0.00	0.00

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2025	Royals	582	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	-0.23	0.32	-0.55	-0.04	1.26	0.20	0.239
2	2026	Royals	93	0	0.12	-0.12	0.11	-0.08	0.02	-0.09	-0.07	0.33	0.32	0.037
	2 Yrs		675	0	0.15	-0.15	0.02	-0.31	0.34	-0.64	-0.04	1.59	0.21	0.276

Composite Rating

Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.

Glossary

		Components
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2025	0.016	-0.006	-0.161	1.404	0.000	0.370	95	258
2	2026	-0.464	-0.844	-0.520	-0.450	0.000	-0.546	336	385

Structural Roles

Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.

			Explicit (Team Sheet)								Inferred (Event Data)
Rk	Season ▴	Starts	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	Read
1	2025	7					7						1	6					an 8, played like a 6
2	2026	1				1									1				a 6, played like an 8
	2 Yrs	8				1	7						1	6	1				an 8, played like a 6

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Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

Rk	Player	Team	Season	Pos	Similarity
1	Sarah Woldmoe	Chicago Stars	2021	Midfielder	0.648
2	Kiki Pickett	Bay	2024	Midfielder	0.646
3	Ainsley McCammon	Reign	2025	Midfielder	0.635
4	Rocky Rodríguez	KC Current	2025	Midfielder	0.633
5	Inès Jaurena	Spirit	2023	Midfielder	0.620
6	Gabrielle Lorraine Seiler	Dash	2021	Midfielder	0.608
7	Taylor Aylmer	Spirit	2021	Midfielder	0.595
8	McCall Zerboni	Gotham FC	2023	Midfielder	0.589
9	Shea Groom	Dash	2022	Midfielder	0.577
10	Natalie Jacobs	Spirit	2021	Defender	0.565