Waine Ben World Cup 2026 player profile
Waine Ben is listed for New Zealand as a Forward. Kickoff Lens uses caps, goals, career context, role, and team strength to explain how this player can affect fixture reads.
Deep player read
Waine Ben is currently classified as a important rotation/core forward: regular squad option, support or rotation forward, 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; 31 caps and 9 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- important rotation/core player in this data package, ranked 3 by impact inside the New Zealand squad and 3 among forward entries.
- support or rotation forward; 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 | Forward · FW |
| Caps | 31 |
| International goals | 9 |
| Impact score | 85 |
| Squad impact rank | 3 |
| Role impact rank | 3 |
| Role profile | important rotation/core · support or rotation forward |
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 convert team territory into shots and first-goal pressure?
- 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
- Garbett MatthewMidfielder · impact 82
- Smith TommyDefender · impact 81
- Just ElijahMidfielder · impact 81
- Boxall MichaelDefender · impact 74
- Payne TimDefender · impact 74
- Old BenMidfielder · 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.