Baena Alex World Cup 2026 player profile
Baena Alex is listed for Spain 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
Baena Alex is currently classified as a squad-support midfielder: regular squad option, control or linking profile, and lower aerial-size profile. This is a derived Kickoff Lens profile built from the public squad fields, not a private scouting report.
- regular squad option; 17 caps and 2 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- squad-support player in this data package, ranked 16 by impact inside the Spain squad and 7 among midfielder entries.
- control or linking 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 | Spain |
|---|---|
| Role | Midfielder · MF |
| Caps | 17 |
| International goals | 2 |
| Impact score | 71 |
| Squad impact rank | 16 |
| Role impact rank | 7 |
| Role profile | squad-support · 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 mobility and role fit matter more than aerial size in this matchup?
Archive context
| Team power score | 82 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA rank | 2 |
| Group path | H |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 29 |
Spain fixtures
- Spain vs Cape VerdeFinished 0-0 · Jun 16, 00:00 · Atlanta
- Spain vs Saudi ArabiaScheduled · Jun 22, 00:00 · Atlanta
- Uruguay vs SpainScheduled · Jun 27, 08:00 · Guadalajara (Zapopan)
Related teammates
- Torres FerranForward · impact 96
- Oyarzabal MikelForward · impact 96
- Olmo DaniForward · impact 94
- Merino MikelMidfielder · impact 89
- RodriMidfielder · impact 86
- Ruiz FabianMidfielder · impact 84
- PedriMidfielder · impact 84
- Williams NicoForward · impact 82
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Spain 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.