Players›Naomi Girma
Naomi Girma
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2000-06-14 (age 26)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2022–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 61 GP · 5,435 min · 0 goals · 0 assists
Composite 2024: 0.079 — ranked 240 of 338 Composite page →
Standard Stats
Advanced Stats
| Expected | VAEP | Threat | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | Min | Gls | xG | G−xG | xG/90 | VAEP | Off | Def | VAEP/90 | xT | xT/90 | DAxT |
| 1 | 2022 | San Diego Wave | 1920 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 2.99 | 3.68 | -0.69 | 0.14 | 4.19 | 0.20 | 0.496 |
| 2 | 2023 | San Diego Wave | 1800 | 0 | 1.95 | 2.98 | -1.03 | 0.10 | 3.86 | 0.19 | 0.325 | |||
| 3 | 2024 | San Diego Wave | 1715 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 1.63 | 3.45 | -1.82 | 0.09 | 4.82 | 0.25 | 0.376 |
| 3 Yrs | 5435 | 0 | 0.06 | -0.06 | 0.00 | 6.57 | 10.11 | -3.54 | 0.11 | 12.87 | 0.21 | 1.197 | ||
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.
| Components | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | xG | Carries | Box Passes | Defense | GK | Composite | Rank | Pool |
| 1 | 2022 | 0.470 | 1.078 | -0.009 | 0.311 | 90 | 247 | ||
| 2 | 2024 | -0.299 | 0.540 | 1.355 | -0.498 | 0.079 | 240 | 338 | |
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 | 2022 | 26 | 26 | 26 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2023 | 20 | 20 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2024 | 21 | 21 | 21 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 67 | 67 | 67 | played her role | |||||||||||||||
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 | Kylie Nadaner | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.903 |
| 2 | Emily Menges | Thorns | 2023 | Defender | 0.867 |
| 3 | Malia Berkely | Courage | 2024 | Defender | 0.856 |
| 4 | Jess Carter | Gotham | 2025 | Defender | 0.846 |
| 5 | Natalie Jacobs | Dash | 2025 | Defender | 0.846 |
| 6 | Kaleigh Riehl | Royals | 2024 | Defender | 0.844 |
| 7 | Meaghan Nally | Thorns | 2022 | Defender | 0.842 |
| 8 | Brooklyn Courtnall | Bay FC | 2025 | Defender | 0.838 |
| 9 | Emily Sonnett | Gotham | 2025 | Defender | 0.833 |
| 10 | Phoebe McClernon | Reign | 2025 | Defender | 0.829 |