Akanji Manuel World Cup 2026 player profile
Akanji Manuel is listed for Switzerland 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
Akanji Manuel is currently classified as a high-impact defender: established international, 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.
- established international; 81 caps and 4 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- high-impact player in this data package, ranked 6 by impact inside the Switzerland squad and 2 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 | Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 81 |
| International goals | 4 |
| Impact score | 88 |
| Squad impact rank | 6 |
| Role impact rank | 2 |
| Role profile | high-impact · 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?
- Would late absence or reduced minutes materially change the team's ceiling?
- Does aerial size matter against the next opponent's set-piece and crossing profile?
Archive context
| Team power score | 76 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA rank | 19 |
| Group path | B |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 44 |
Switzerland fixtures
- Qatar vs SwitzerlandFinished 1-1 · Jun 14, 03:00 · San Francisco Bay Area (Santa Clara)
- Switzerland vs Bosnia and HerzegovinaScheduled · Jun 19, 03:00 · Los Angeles (Inglewood)
- Switzerland vs CanadaScheduled · Jun 25, 03:00 · Vancouver
Related teammates
- Rodriguez RicardoDefender · impact 96
- Freuler RemoMidfielder · impact 96
- Xhaka GranitMidfielder · impact 96
- Embolo BreelForward · impact 96
- Vargas RubenForward · impact 95
- Amdouni ZekiForward · impact 87
- Zakaria DenisMidfielder · impact 86
- Widmer SilvanDefender · impact 85
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Switzerland 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.