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Nuria Rábano

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: Spain
Born:: 1999-06-15 (age 27)
Height:: 165 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 30 GP · 2,297 min · 0 goals · 3 assists

Composite 2026: 0.414 — ranked 106 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	22	21	1630	0	2	0	4	0	11	76.0	5	0	0.00	0.11
2	2026	Royals	8	8	667	0	1	0	2	0	11	65.5	0	0	0.00	0.13
	2 Yrs		30	29	2297	0	3	0	6	0	22	73.1	5	0	0.00	0.12

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	1630	0	0.11	-0.11	0.01	0.30	1.95	-1.65	0.02	5.00	0.28	0.827
2	2026	Royals	667	0	0.13	-0.13	0.02	0.71	1.55	-0.84	0.10	7.01	0.95	0.184
	2 Yrs		2297	0	0.24	-0.24	0.01	1.01	3.50	-2.49	0.04	12.01	0.47	1.011

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	0.018	0.330	-0.200	0.237		0.095	173	258
2	2026	-0.496	0.294	0.198	1.036	0.000	0.414	106	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	21		21								21							played her role
2	2026	8		8								8							played her role
	2 Yrs	29		29								29							played her role

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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	Ali Riley	Angel City	2022	Defender	0.894
2	Kylie Nadaner	Pride	2023	Defender	0.883
3	Taylor Wood	Chicago Stars	2025	Midfielder	0.846
4	M.A. Vignola	Angel City	2025	Defender	0.844
5	Madison Curry	Angel City	2024	Defender	0.843
6	Alyssa Malonson	Bay	2024	Defender	0.839
7	Kristen McNabb	San Diego Wave	2022	Defender	0.827
8	Savy King	Bay	2024	Defender	0.819
9	Reyna Reyes	Thorns	2025	Defender	0.814
10	Allysha Chapman	Dash	2022	Defender	0.814