Pacho Willian World Cup 2026 player profile
Pacho Willian is listed for Ecuador 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
Pacho Willian is currently classified as a squad-support defender: regular squad option, defensive role profile, and useful aerial size. This is a derived Kickoff Lens profile built from the public squad fields, not a private scouting report.
- regular squad option; 34 caps and 2 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- squad-support player in this data package, ranked 7 by impact inside the Ecuador squad and 4 among defender entries.
- defensive role 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 | Ecuador |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 34 |
| International goals | 2 |
| Impact score | 75 |
| Squad impact rank | 7 |
| Role impact rank | 4 |
| 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 aerial size matter against the next opponent's set-piece and crossing profile?
Archive context
| Team power score | 66 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA rank | 23 |
| Group path | E |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 30 |
Ecuador fixtures
- Ivory Coast vs EcuadorFinished 1-0 · Jun 15, 07:00 · Philadelphia
- Ecuador vs CuraçaoScheduled · Jun 21, 08:00 · Kansas City
- Ecuador vs GermanyScheduled · Jun 26, 04:00 · New York/New Jersey (East Rutherford)
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- Caicedo MoisesMidfielder · impact 85
- Estupinan PervisDefender · impact 84
- Plata GonzaloForward · impact 82
- Hincapie PieroDefender · impact 80
- Torres FelixDefender · impact 76
- Franco AlanMidfielder · impact 75
- Yeboah JohnForward · impact 75
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Ecuador 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.