Luana

Luana Bertolucci Paixão

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: Brazil
Born:: 1993-05-02 (age 33)
Height:: 163 cm

Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 17 GP · 546 min · 1 goals · 1 assists

Composite 2026: -0.317 — ranked 291 of 385 Composite page →

Standard Stats

			Playing Time			Performance									Per 90
Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	GS	Min	Gls	Ast	PK	Sh	SoT	KP	Pass%	CrdY	CrdR	Gls/90	G+A/90
1	2024	Pride	3	2	192	0	0	0	0	0	2	79.7	2	0	0.00	0.00
2	2025	Pride	5		45	1	0	1	1	1	1	74.1	1	0	2.00	2.00
3	2026	Pride	9	3	309	0	1	0	5	1	2	65.9	0	0	0.00	0.29
	3 Yrs		17	5	546	1	1	1	6	2	5	72.4	3	0	0.16	0.33

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2024	Pride	192	0	0.03	-0.03	0.01	-0.02	0.16	-0.18	-0.01	0.40	0.19	0.049
2	2025	Pride	45	1				0.34	0.37	-0.03	0.69	0.19	0.38	0.049
3	2026	Pride	309	0	0.22	-0.22	0.06	-1.09	-0.09	-1.00	-0.32	1.16	0.34	0.155
	3 Yrs		546	1	0.25	-0.25	0.04	-0.77	0.44	-1.21	-0.13	1.75	0.29	0.253

Composite Rating

Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.

Glossary

		Components
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2024	0.031	-0.334	0.055	0.484		0.083	238	338
2	2026	-0.344	-0.349	-0.445	-0.198	0.000	-0.317	291	385

Structural Roles

Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.

			Explicit (Team Sheet)								Inferred (Event Data)
Rk	Season ▴	Starts	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	Read
1	2024	2					2							2					an 8, played like a 6
2	2026	3					3							2			1		an 8, played like a 6
	2 Yrs	5					5							4			1		an 8, played like a 6

Similar Players

Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

Rk	Player	Team	Season	Pos	Similarity
1	Caroline Conti	Bay	2025	Forward	0.688
2	Nadia Nadim	Thorns	2017	Forward	0.680
3	Tinaya Chantae Evelyn Alexander	Spirit	2022	Forward	0.659
4	Rachel Ann Daly	Dash	2022	Forward	0.659
5	Bethany Balcer	Racing Lou	2025	Forward	0.636
6	Yuka Nicole Momiki	Reign	2020	Midfielder	0.632
7	Christine Nairn	Dash	2020	Midfielder	0.620
8	Julie Doyle	Pride	2025	Midfielder	0.615
9	Mallory Swanson	Chicago Stars	2024	Forward	0.604
10	McCall Zerboni	Gotham FC	2024	Midfielder	0.571