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Isabella Obaze
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- Denmark
- Born:
- 2002-10-30 (age 23)
- Height:
- 172 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 44 GP · 3,609 min · 0 goals · 2 assists
Composite 2026: -0.337 — ranked 297 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
Advanced Stats
| Expected | VAEP | Threat | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | Min | Gls | xG | G−xG | xG/90 | VAEP | Off | Def | VAEP/90 | xT | xT/90 | DAxT |
| 1 | 2024 | Thorns | 1018 | 0 | 0.27 | -0.27 | 0.02 | 0.50 | 0.79 | -0.29 | 0.04 | 1.38 | 0.12 | 0.277 |
| 2 | 2025 | Thorns | 1894 | 0 | 0.12 | -0.12 | 0.01 | 1.28 | 1.77 | -0.48 | 0.06 | 3.46 | 0.16 | 0.401 |
| 3 | 2026 | Thorns | 697 | 0 | 0.31 | -0.31 | 0.04 | 0.27 | 0.23 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 1.85 | 0.24 | 0.139 |
| 3 Yrs | 3609 | 0 | 0.70 | -0.70 | 0.02 | 2.05 | 2.79 | -0.74 | 0.05 | 6.69 | 0.17 | 0.817 | ||
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.
| Components | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | xG | Carries | Box Passes | Defense | GK | Composite | Rank | Pool |
| 1 | 2026 | 0.113 | -0.215 | -0.778 | -0.376 | 0.043 | -0.337 | 297 | 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 | 2024 | 14 | 14 | 14 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 3 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 8 | 8 | 8 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 45 | 4 | 41 | 3 | 42 | played her role | |||||||||||||
Similar Players
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 | Maycee Bell | Courage | 2026 | Defender | 0.803 |
| 2 | Kayla Sharples | Chicago Stars | 2022 | Defender | 0.788 |
| 3 | Gabby Provenzano | Thorns | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.787 |
| 4 | Becky Sauerbrunn | Thorns | 2024 | Defender | 0.769 |
| 5 | Megan Reid | Angel City | 2024 | Defender | 0.747 |
| 6 | Mandy Freeman | Gotham FC | 2021 | Defender | 0.740 |
| 7 | Katie Lind | Dash | 2021 | Defender | 0.738 |
| 8 | Sam Hiatt | Reign | 2023 | Defender | 0.738 |
| 9 | Kaleigh Riehl | Racing Lou | 2021 | Defender | 0.735 |
| 10 | Abby Erceg | Racing Lou | 2024 | Defender | 0.734 |