Kanani Hossein World Cup 2026 player profile
Kanani Hossein is listed for Iran 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
Kanani Hossein is currently classified as a important rotation/core defender: established international, set-piece scoring defender, and useful aerial size. This is a derived Kickoff Lens profile built from the public squad fields, not a private scouting report.
- established international; 65 caps and 6 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- important rotation/core player in this data package, ranked 8 by impact inside the Iran squad and 3 among defender entries.
- set-piece scoring defender; 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 | Iran |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 65 |
| International goals | 6 |
| Impact score | 80 |
| Squad impact rank | 8 |
| Role impact rank | 3 |
| Role profile | important rotation/core · set-piece scoring defender |
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 | 77 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA live rank | 22 |
| Group path | G |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 45 |
Iran fixtures
- Iran vs New ZealandFinished 2-2 · Jun 16, 09:00 · Los Angeles (Inglewood)
- Belgium vs IranFinished 0-0 · Jun 22, 03:00 · Los Angeles (Inglewood)
- Egypt vs IranFinished 1-1 · Jun 27, 11:00 · Seattle
Related teammates
- Jahanbakhsh AlirezaMidfielder · impact 96
- Taremi MehdiForward · impact 96
- Hajisafi EhsanDefender · impact 95
- Rezaeian RaminDefender · impact 84
- Mohebbi MohammadMidfielder · impact 84
- Torabi MehdiMidfielder · impact 81
- Ezatolahi SaeidMidfielder · impact 81
- Ghoddos SamanMidfielder · impact 79
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Iran 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.