Players›Julia Grosso
Julia Grosso
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- Canada
- Born:
- 2000-08-29 (age 25)
- Height:
- 171 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 47 GP · 3,967 min · 2 goals · 3 assists
Composite 2026: 0.430 — ranked 103 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 | 2024 | Chicago Stars | 11 | 11 | 939 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 89.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 | 2025 | Chicago Stars | 24 | 23 | 1993 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 12 | 22 | 85.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.09 | 0.23 |
| 3 | 2026 | Chicago Stars | 12 | 12 | 1035 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 84.7 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 3 Yrs | 47 | 46 | 3967 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 24 | 16 | 41 | 86.0 | 2 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.11 | ||
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 | Chicago Stars | 939 | 0 | 0.25 | -0.25 | 0.02 | 0.31 | 0.27 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.70 | 0.07 | 0.200 |
| 2 | 2025 | Chicago Stars | 1993 | 2 | 1.26 | 0.74 | 0.06 | 1.73 | 1.87 | -0.14 | 0.08 | 2.46 | 0.11 | 0.389 |
| 3 | 2026 | Chicago Stars | 1035 | 0 | 0.26 | -0.26 | 0.02 | 0.79 | 0.87 | -0.08 | 0.07 | 3.64 | 0.32 | 0.141 |
| 3 Yrs | 3967 | 2 | 1.77 | 0.23 | 0.04 | 2.83 | 3.01 | -0.17 | 0.06 | 6.80 | 0.15 | 0.730 | ||
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 | 2025 | 0.068 | -0.511 | 2.436 | -1.468 | 0.173 | 143 | 258 | |
| 2 | 2026 | -0.234 | 1.077 | 1.268 | -0.615 | 0.000 | 0.430 | 103 | 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 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 23 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 2 | a winger, played like a 6 | ||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||
| 3 Yrs | 46 | 10 | 21 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 4 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||
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 | Marisa DiGrande | Racing Lou | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.748 |
| 2 | Meggie Dougherty Howard | Angel City | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.709 |
| 3 | Andi Sullivan | Spirit | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.702 |
| 4 | Dorian Bailey | Bay | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.689 |
| 5 | Ana Tejada | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.678 |
| 6 | Gaëtane Iza Laure Thiney | Gotham FC | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.669 |
| 7 | Katie O'Kane | Racing Lou | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.668 |
| 8 | Júlia Bianchi | Chicago Stars | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.647 |
| 9 | Emily Curran | Dash | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.634 |
| 10 | Jennifer Cudjoe | Gotham FC | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.624 |