Tillman Malik World Cup 2026 player profile
Tillman Malik is listed for United States 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
Tillman Malik is currently classified as a important rotation/core midfielder: regular squad option, 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.
- regular squad option; 30 caps and 3 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- important rotation/core player in this data package, ranked 12 by impact inside the United States 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 | United States |
|---|---|
| Role | Midfielder · MF |
| Caps | 30 |
| International goals | 3 |
| Impact score | 77 |
| Squad impact rank | 12 |
| 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?
- 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 | 85 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA rank | 17 |
| Group path | D |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 37 |
United States fixtures
- United States vs ParaguayFinished 4-1 · Jun 13, 09:00 · Los Angeles (Inglewood)
- United States vs AustraliaScheduled · Jun 20, 03:00 · Seattle
- Turkey vs United StatesScheduled · Jun 26, 10:00 · Los Angeles (Inglewood)
Related teammates
- Mckennie WestonMidfielder · impact 96
- Pulisic ChristianForward · impact 96
- Aaronson BrendenForward · impact 92
- Weah TimothyForward · impact 88
- Reyna GiovanniMidfielder · impact 86
- Pepi RicardoForward · impact 85
- Robinson AntoneeDefender · impact 84
- Balogun FolarinForward · impact 84
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- United States 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.