Football Diagnosis

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Centre-Back

CB-4

Playing Style

You reach the landing spot before your opponent, winning the duel on position before either of you jumps. Your aerial power comes not just from frame but from the speed of the run-up and the take-off.At set pieces you get a touch on almost everything in your own box, and in the opponent's you're a source of goals. The more a team wants to launch it long and fight, the less they want to see you.On the ground your force in the challenge is unchanged, and you prefer to step out and crush things early. By refusing to concede the airspace, you let the whole line push higher.Your voice carries, too, so organising everyone from the back comes naturally.

Ability Ratings

Highest94Defensive Sense
Second highest90Kick Power
Stamina
81
Pace
76
Attacking Sense
68
Defensive Sense
94
Ball Control
72
Dribbling
58
Kick Power
90
Kick Accuracy
78

Defensive Sense 94 alongside Kick Power 90 — the shape of front-foot defending. Attacking Sense 68 marks you as a defender who scores from set pieces.

What You're Like

The bigger the occasion, the bolder you get — public speaking holds no fear. Not because the nerves are absent, but because you can walk forward carrying them. You don't avoid the spotlight; a bigger crowd simply turns your dial up.

A natural carer, you take the blame for a junior's mistake first and explain it to them later. In any structured group you become the person people lean on, and the first round of any gathering is always run by you.

Your flaw: when you heat up, the volume rises. No malice in it, but the pressure comes through, and afterwards you reflect, briefly. Tiredness gets fixed with exercise; the habit never breaks. The loud voice may cost you sometimes, but what it says is always sound.

Fine-grained coordination isn't your thing, so you hand it over — and give whoever takes it your total trust, which is exactly why the people around you perform. Days off usually mean dragging someone outside; staying home alone barely exists as an option.

In the Mould Of

  • Sergio RamosSpain
  • Nemanja VidićSerbia
  • Kalidou KoulibalySenegal