Arias Santiago World Cup 2026 player profile
Arias Santiago is listed for Colombia as a Defender. Kickoff Lens uses caps, goals, career context, role, and team strength to explain how this player can affect fixture reads.
Deep player read
Arias Santiago is currently classified as a squad-support defender: established international, defensive role profile, and lower aerial-size profile. This is a derived Kickoff Lens profile built from the public squad fields, not a private scouting report.
- established international; 68 caps and 0 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- squad-support player in this data package, ranked 12 by impact inside the Colombia squad and 6 among defender entries.
- defensive role profile; lower aerial-size profile.
- 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 | Colombia |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 68 |
| International goals | 0 |
| Impact score | 74 |
| Squad impact rank | 12 |
| Role impact rank | 6 |
| Role profile | squad-support · defensive role 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 protect the box when the opponent's attack signal rises?
- Does the player improve the rotation floor without becoming the central dependency?
- Does mobility and role fit matter more than aerial size in this matchup?
Archive context
| Team power score | 80 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA live rank | 11 |
| Group path | K |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 40 |
Colombia fixtures
- Uzbekistan vs ColombiaFinished 1-3 · Jun 18, 10:00 · Mexico City
- Colombia vs DR CongoFinished 1-0 · Jun 24, 10:00 · Guadalajara (Zapopan)
- Colombia vs PortugalFinished 0-0 · Jun 28, 07:30 · Miami (Miami Gardens)
- Colombia vs GhanaFinished 1-0 · Jul 04, 09:30 · Kansas City
- Switzerland vs ColombiaFinished 0-0（点球 4-3） · Jul 08, 04:00 · Vancouver
Related teammates
- Rodriguez JamesMidfielder · impact 96
- Diaz LuisForward · impact 96
- Lerma JeffersonMidfielder · impact 88
- Mina YerryDefender · impact 87
- Ospina DavidGoalkeeper · impact 84
- Sanchez DavinsonDefender · impact 81
- Munoz DanielDefender · impact 80
- Quintero JuanMidfielder · impact 79
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Colombia 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.