Wanner Paul World Cup 2026 player profile
Wanner Paul is listed for Austria as a Midfielder. Kickoff Lens uses caps, goals, career context, role, and team strength to explain how this player can affect fixture reads.
Deep player read
Wanner Paul is currently classified as a depth midfielder: low-cap squad option, control or linking profile, and useful aerial size. This is a derived Kickoff Lens profile built from the public squad fields, not a private scouting report.
- low-cap squad option; 3 caps and 0 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- depth player in this data package, ranked 25 by impact inside the Austria squad and 11 among midfielder entries.
- control or linking profile; useful aerial size.
- The match model uses this profile through role, experience, impact score, and team context rather than treating the player as a standalone model context.
Player signal
| Team | Austria |
|---|---|
| Role | Midfielder · MF |
| Caps | 3 |
| International goals | 0 |
| Impact score | 54 |
| Squad impact rank | 25 |
| Role impact rank | 11 |
| Role profile | depth · control or linking profile |
Model context
The player impact score is not a standalone rating. It is one input inside the contextual match model, alongside squad depth, team radar, venue adaptation, travel/rest load, and group pressure.
Match questions
- Can the player help the team control tempo under pressure?
- Does the player improve the rotation floor without becoming the central dependency?
- Does aerial size matter against the next opponent's set-piece and crossing profile?
Archive context
| Team power score | 74 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA live rank | 23 |
| Group path | J |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 39 |
Austria fixtures
- Austria vs JordanFinished 3-1 · Jun 17, 12:00 · San Francisco Bay Area (Santa Clara)
- Argentina vs AustriaFinished 2-0 · Jun 23, 01:00 · Dallas (Arlington, Texas)
- Algeria vs AustriaFinished 3-3 · Jun 28, 10:00 · Kansas City
- Spain vs AustriaFinished 3-0 · Jul 03, 03:00 · Los Angeles (Inglewood)
Related teammates
- Alaba DavidDefender · impact 96
- Sabitzer MarcelMidfielder · impact 96
- Arnautovic MarkoForward · impact 96
- Gregoritsch MichaelForward · impact 96
- Laimer KonradMidfielder · impact 89
- Schlager XaverMidfielder · impact 84
- Posch StefanDefender · impact 83
- Seiwald NicolasMidfielder · impact 79
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Austria team radarFull squad, team strengths, and fixture list.
- All player profilesBrowse the World Cup 2026 player library.
- Discovery hubEvery team, match, venue, and tournament page.