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Rebeca Bernal

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: Mexico
Born:: 1997-08-31 (age 28)
Height:: 168 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 37 GP · 2,978 min · 2 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2026: 0.038 — ranked 207 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	Spirit	24	23	2021	0	0	0	12	7	13	85.3	1	0	0.00	0.00
2	2026	Spirit	13	12	957	2	0	0	6	2	7	86.3	2	0	0.19	0.19
	2 Yrs		37	35	2978	2	0	0	18	9	20	85.6	3	0	0.06	0.06

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	Spirit	2021	0	0.48	-0.48	0.02	-0.35	1.83	-2.18	-0.02	3.58	0.16	0.434
2	2026	Spirit	957	2	1.31	0.69	0.12	1.85	2.24	-0.39	0.17	2.18	0.20	0.249
	2 Yrs		2978	2	1.79	0.21	0.05	1.50	4.07	-2.57	0.05	5.76	0.17	0.683

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	-0.339	-0.976	-0.191	2.127		0.728	35	258
2	2026	0.315	-0.159	-0.592	0.695	0.000	0.038	207	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	3			2		1						3						played her role
2	2025	23			18	1	4					1	13	9					played her role
3	2026	12			1	10	1						1	11					played her role
	3 Yrs	38			21	11	6					1	17	20					a center back, 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.

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2	Narumi Miura	Courage	2024	Midfielder	0.728
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4	Quinn	Reign	2024	Midfielder	0.710
5	Allie Long	Gotham FC	2021	Midfielder	0.693
6	Hina Sugita	Thorns	2024	Midfielder	0.665
7	Jess Fishlock	Reign	2024	Midfielder	0.662
8	Morgan Gautrat	Chicago Stars	2022	Midfielder	0.651
9	Maitane López	Chicago Stars	2025	Midfielder	0.632
10	Hal Hershfelt	Spirit	2024	Midfielder	0.630