Kevin Yakob World Cup 2026 player profile
Kevin Yakob is listed for Iraq 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
Kevin Yakob is currently classified as a depth midfielder: low-cap 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.
- low-cap squad option; 9 caps and 0 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- depth player in this data package, ranked 22 by impact inside the Iraq squad and 5 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 | Iraq |
|---|---|
| Role | Midfielder · MF |
| Caps | 9 |
| International goals | 0 |
| Impact score | 58 |
| Squad impact rank | 22 |
| Role impact rank | 5 |
| 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 mobility and role fit matter more than aerial size in this matchup?
Archive context
| Team power score | 61 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA live rank | 63 |
| Group path | I |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 32 |
Iraq fixtures
- Iraq vs NorwayFinished 1-4 · Jun 17, 06:00 · Boston (Foxborough)
- France vs IraqFinished 3-0 · Jun 23, 05:00 · Philadelphia
- Senegal vs IraqFinished 5-0 · Jun 27, 03:00 · Toronto
Related teammates
- Aymen HusseinForward · impact 96
- Mohanad AliForward · impact 96
- Ibrahim BayeshMidfielder · impact 87
- Jalal HassanGoalkeeper · impact 80
- Ali AlhamadiForward · impact 77
- Amir AlammariMidfielder · impact 76
- Rebin SulakaDefender · impact 73
- Ali JasimForward · impact 72
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Iraq 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.