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Sofia Cantore

Position:: Forward
Nationality:: Italy
Born:: 1999-09-30 (age 26)
Height:: 167 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 28 GP · 1,812 min · 7 goals · 2 assists

Composite 2026: 0.439 — ranked 101 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	15	11	1006	4	1	0	29	14	8	69.1	1	0	0.36	0.45
2	2026	Spirit	13	11	806	3	1	0	17	7	8	76.4	0	0	0.33	0.45
	2 Yrs		28	22	1812	7	2	0	46	21	16	72.4	1	0	0.35	0.45

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	1006	4	2.46	1.54	0.22	0.46	0.76	-0.30	0.04	1.27	0.11	0.033
2	2026	Spirit	806	3	1.90	1.10	0.21	0.01	0.20	-0.19	0.00	2.14	0.24	0.100
	2 Yrs		1812	7	4.36	2.64	0.22	0.47	0.96	-0.49	0.02	3.41	0.17	0.133

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	1.239	1.400	0.681	-1.618		0.795	32	258
2	2026	0.316	0.923	0.909	-0.251	0.000	0.439	101	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	11						1	4	6							4	7	played her role
2	2026	11								11							3	8	played her role
	2 Yrs	22						1	4	17							7	15	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	Claudia Martínez	Spirit	2026	Forward	0.780
2	Barbra Banda	Pride	2024	Forward	0.738
3	Izzy D'Aquila	Thorns	2023	Forward	0.726
4	Kristen Hamilton	KC Current	2022	Forward	0.717
5	Casey Phair	Angel City	2025	Forward	0.707
6	Marissa Everett	Thorns	2022	Forward	0.703
7	Nadia Nadim	Racing Lou	2021	Forward	0.701
8	Esther González	Gotham FC	2024	Forward	0.699
9	Pietra Tordin	Thorns	2025	Forward	0.689
10	Olivia Wingate	Courage	2024	Forward	0.688