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Natalia Staude

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 2001-04-30 (age 25)
Height:: 170 cm

Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 19 GP · 1,344 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2026: -0.005 — ranked 229 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	Courage	0		0	0	0	0	0	0			0	0
2	2025	Courage	9	7	680	0	0	0	2	0	3	85.2	0	0	0.00	0.00
3	2026	Courage	10	7	664	0	0	0	1	0	7	88.2	0	0	0.00	0.00
	3 Yrs		19	14	1344	0	0	0	3	0	10	86.7	0	0	0.00	0.00

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	Courage	0	0
2	2025	Courage	680	0	0.32	-0.32	0.04	0.86	0.89	-0.03	0.11	1.46	0.19	0.175
3	2026	Courage	664	0	0.60	-0.60	0.08	1.00	1.31	-0.31	0.13	4.45	0.60	0.121
	3 Yrs		1344	0	0.92	-0.92	0.06	1.86	2.20	-0.34	0.12	5.91	0.40	0.296

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	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	274	338
2	2025	-0.138	0.130	0.395	-0.261	0.000	0.052	185	258
3	2026	0.200	0.175	0.425	-0.238	0.000	-0.005	229	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	2025	7		1	6							1	5		1				played her role
2	2026	7			7								6	1					played her role
	2 Yrs	14		1	13							1	11	1	1				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	Hannah Anderson	Stars	2025	Defender	0.733
2	Diane Evelyn Caldwell	Courage	2021	Defender	0.717
3	Katie Lind	Dash	2023	Defender	0.713
4	Sarah Gorden	Angel City	2026	Defender	0.700
5	Ellie Jean	Gotham	2023	Defender	0.683
6	Kayla Sharples	Stars	2022	Defender	0.682
7	Kaleigh Riehl	Royals	2026	Defender	0.657
8	Kailen Sheridan	Wave	2025	Goalkeeper	0.649
9	Abby Dahlkemper	Wave	2023	Defender	0.645
10	Natalie Jacobs	Dash	2023	Defender	0.645