Tomiyasu Takehiro World Cup 2026 player profile
Tomiyasu Takehiro is listed for Japan 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
Tomiyasu Takehiro 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; 43 caps and 1 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- squad-support player in this data package, ranked 16 by impact inside the Japan squad and 5 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 | Japan |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 43 |
| International goals | 1 |
| Impact score | 69 |
| Squad impact rank | 16 |
| Role impact rank | 5 |
| 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 | 75 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA live rank | 17 |
| Group path | F |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 31 |
Japan fixtures
- Netherlands vs JapanFinished 2-2 · Jun 15, 04:00 · Dallas (Arlington, Texas)
- Tunisia vs JapanFinished 0-4 · Jun 21, 12:00 · Monterrey (Guadalupe)
- Japan vs SwedenFinished 1-1 · Jun 26, 07:00 · Dallas (Arlington, Texas)
- Brazil vs JapanFinished 2-1 · Jun 30, 01:00 · Houston
Related teammates
- Doan RitsuMidfielder · impact 95
- Ito JunyaMidfielder · impact 93
- Kamada DaichiMidfielder · impact 93
- Nagatomo YutoDefender · impact 92
- Ueda AyaseForward · impact 89
- Kubo TakefusaMidfielder · impact 87
- Nakamura KeitoMidfielder · impact 85
- Tanaka AoMidfielder · impact 85
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Japan 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.