Zakaria Denis World Cup 2026 player profile
Zakaria Denis is listed for Switzerland 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
Zakaria Denis is currently classified as a important rotation/core midfielder: established international, control or linking 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; 65 caps and 3 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- important rotation/core player in this data package, ranked 8 by impact inside the Switzerland squad and 3 among midfielder entries.
- control or linking 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 | Midfielder · MF |
| Caps | 65 |
| International goals | 3 |
| Impact score | 86 |
| Squad impact rank | 8 |
| Role impact rank | 3 |
| Role profile | important rotation/core · 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?
- 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 | 79 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA live rank | 14 |
| 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 HerzegovinaFinished 4-1 · Jun 19, 03:00 · Los Angeles (Inglewood)
- Switzerland vs CanadaFinished 2-1 · Jun 25, 03:00 · Vancouver
- Switzerland vs AlgeriaFinished 2-0 · Jul 03, 11:00 · Vancouver
- Switzerland vs ColombiaFinished 0-0（点球 4-3） · Jul 08, 04:00 · Vancouver
- Argentina vs SwitzerlandFinished 3-1 · Jul 12, 09:00 · Kansas City
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- Freuler RemoMidfielder · impact 96
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- Embolo BreelForward · impact 96
- Vargas RubenForward · impact 95
- Akanji ManuelDefender · impact 88
- Amdouni ZekiForward · impact 87
- 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.