Pijnaker Nando World Cup 2026 player profile
Pijnaker Nando is listed for New Zealand 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
Pijnaker Nando is currently classified as a depth 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; 26 caps and 0 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- depth player in this data package, ranked 19 by impact inside the New Zealand squad and 6 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 | New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 26 |
| International goals | 0 |
| Impact score | 63 |
| Squad impact rank | 19 |
| Role impact rank | 6 |
| Role profile | depth · 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 | 62 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA rank | 85 |
| Group path | G |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 33 |
New Zealand fixtures
- Iran vs New ZealandFinished 2-2 · Jun 16, 09:00 · Los Angeles (Inglewood)
- New Zealand vs EgyptScheduled · Jun 22, 09:00 · Vancouver
- New Zealand vs BelgiumScheduled · Jun 27, 11:00 · Vancouver
Related teammates
- Wood ChrisForward · impact 96
- Barbarouses KostaForward · impact 90
- Waine BenForward · impact 85
- Garbett MatthewMidfielder · impact 82
- Smith TommyDefender · impact 81
- Just ElijahMidfielder · impact 81
- Boxall MichaelDefender · impact 74
- Payne TimDefender · impact 74
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- New Zealand 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.