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Rafaelle
Rafaelle Leone Carvalho Souza
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- Brazil
- Born:
- 1991-06-18 (age 35)
- Height:
- 176 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 41 GP · 3,058 min · 1 goals · 2 assists
Composite 2026: 0.968 — ranked 26 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 | 2023 | Pride | 610 | 1 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.07 | 1.30 | 1.35 | -0.05 | 0.19 | 1.27 | 0.19 | 0.203 |
| 2 | 2024 | Pride | 618 | 0 | 0.93 | -0.93 | 0.13 | -0.16 | 0.29 | -0.45 | -0.02 | 1.03 | 0.15 | 0.180 |
| 3 | 2025 | Pride | 993 | 0 | 0.62 | -0.62 | 0.06 | 1.79 | 2.08 | -0.29 | 0.16 | 2.52 | 0.23 | 0.169 |
| 4 | 2026 | Pride | 837 | 0 | 0.32 | -0.32 | 0.03 | 1.04 | 1.03 | 0.01 | 0.11 | 3.29 | 0.35 | 0.277 |
| 4 Yrs | 3058 | 1 | 2.37 | -1.37 | 0.07 | 3.97 | 4.75 | -0.78 | 0.12 | 8.11 | 0.24 | 0.829 | ||
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 | 2023 | 1.105 | -1.095 | 0.489 | 1.090 | 0.722 | 30 | 240 | |
| 2 | 2024 | 0.201 | -0.946 | 0.261 | 1.075 | 0.626 | 59 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2026 | -0.075 | 0.714 | 1.005 | 1.125 | 0.000 | 0.968 | 26 | 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 | 2023 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 6 | 6 | 6 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 13 | 13 | 13 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2026 | 10 | 10 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 36 | 36 | 35 | 1 | 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 | Tierna Davidson | Chicago Stars | 2023 | Defender | 0.917 |
| 2 | Paige Nielsen | Dash | 2025 | Defender | 0.897 |
| 3 | Kelli Hubly | Thorns | 2021 | Defender | 0.895 |
| 4 | Kaleigh Kurtz | Courage | 2025 | Defender | 0.889 |
| 5 | Sam Hiatt | Gotham FC | 2024 | Defender | 0.880 |
| 6 | Megan Reid | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.880 |
| 7 | Becky Sauerbrunn | Thorns | 2021 | Defender | 0.873 |
| 8 | Meaghan Nally | Thorns | 2022 | Defender | 0.870 |
| 9 | Katie Lind | Dash | 2021 | Defender | 0.865 |
| 10 | Kayla Sharples | Bay | 2024 | Defender | 0.863 |