Players›Sofia Huerta
Sofia Huerta
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1992-12-14 (age 33)
- Height:
- 170 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 201 GP · 18,053 min · 33 goals · 32 assists
Composite 2026: 0.962 — ranked 27 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 | 2016 | Chicago Stars | 20 | 20 | 1803 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 43 | 19 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 0.35 | 0.45 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Chicago Stars | 24 | 21 | 2077 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 51 | 32 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0.26 | 0.43 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Dash | 23 | 23 | 2280 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 77 | 44 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0.32 | 0.55 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Dash | 24 | 23 | 2192 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 47 | 23 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0.21 | 0.37 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Reign | 24 | 23 | 2106 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 25 | 11 | 31 | 81.8 | 2 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.30 |
| 6 | 2022 | Reign | 20 | 19 | 1740 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 32 | 78.6 | 1 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.26 |
| 7 | 2023 | Reign | 20 | 19 | 1727 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 26 | 78.4 | 3 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.16 |
| 8 | 2024 | Reign | 19 | 19 | 1710 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 31 | 79.4 | 4 | 0 | 0.11 | 0.11 |
| 9 | 2025 | Reign | 14 | 14 | 1260 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 17 | 82.7 | 1 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.14 |
| 10 | 2026 | Reign | 13 | 13 | 1158 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 81.1 | 1 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.31 |
| 10 Yrs | 201 | 194 | 18053 | 33 | 32 | 5 | 289 | 150 | 262 | 80.2 | 16 | 0 | 0.16 | 0.32 | ||
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 | 2016 | Chicago Stars | 1803 | 7 | 3.70 | 3.30 | 0.18 | 5.16 | 5.20 | -0.04 | 0.26 | 2.22 | 0.11 | 0.283 |
| 2 | 2017 | Chicago Stars | 2077 | 6 | 2.73 | 3.27 | 0.12 | 3.76 | 4.88 | -1.13 | 0.16 | 4.64 | 0.20 | 0.371 |
| 3 | 2018 | Dash | 2280 | 8 | 6.66 | 1.34 | 0.26 | 3.24 | 3.66 | -0.42 | 0.13 | 5.91 | 0.23 | 0.391 |
| 4 | 2019 | Dash | 2192 | 5 | 6.17 | -1.17 | 0.25 | 2.58 | 2.83 | -0.25 | 0.11 | 5.23 | 0.21 | 0.349 |
| 5 | 2021 | Reign | 2106 | 1 | 1.77 | -0.77 | 0.08 | 2.14 | 2.95 | -0.81 | 0.09 | 6.14 | 0.26 | 0.268 |
| 6 | 2022 | Reign | 1740 | 1 | 1.09 | -0.09 | 0.06 | 5.70 | 6.31 | -0.61 | 0.29 | 7.83 | 0.41 | 0.410 |
| 7 | 2023 | Reign | 1727 | 1 | 1.23 | -0.23 | 0.06 | 2.47 | 3.13 | -0.67 | 0.13 | 5.47 | 0.28 | 0.334 |
| 8 | 2024 | Reign | 1710 | 2 | 2.35 | -0.35 | 0.12 | 0.77 | 3.11 | -2.33 | 0.04 | 7.62 | 0.40 | 0.404 |
| 9 | 2025 | Reign | 1260 | 1 | 1.22 | -0.22 | 0.09 | 1.25 | 2.08 | -0.83 | 0.09 | 4.23 | 0.30 | 0.283 |
| 10 | 2026 | Reign | 1158 | 1 | 1.31 | -0.31 | 0.10 | 1.64 | 1.94 | -0.30 | 0.13 | 8.14 | 0.63 | 0.246 |
| 10 Yrs | 18053 | 33 | 28.23 | 4.77 | 0.14 | 28.71 | 36.09 | -7.39 | 0.14 | 57.43 | 0.29 | 3.339 | ||
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 | 0.923 | 1.199 | -1.434 | 1.740 | 0.530 | 50 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | 0.164 | 1.442 | -1.515 | 1.577 | 0.403 | 78 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | -0.378 | 1.229 | -1.989 | 1.006 | -0.044 | 334 | 338 | |
| 4 | 2026 | 0.574 | 0.866 | 1.612 | 0.607 | 0.041 | 0.962 | 27 | 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 | 2016 | 21 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | a 9, played like a winger | ||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 22 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 7 | a 9, played like a winger | |||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 23 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 1 | an 8, played like a winger | |||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 23 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | a winger, played like a 10 | ||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 27 | 9 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 3 | played her role | |||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 25 | 25 | 23 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 21 | 21 | 21 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | 2024 | 20 | 20 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 10 | 2025 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 11 | 2026 | 13 | 13 | 13 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 11 Yrs | 215 | 99 | 4 | 29 | 2 | 59 | 22 | 107 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 52 | 28 | 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 | Natalia Kuikka | Thorns | 2021 | Defender | 0.675 |
| 2 | Hailie Mace | KC Current | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.663 |
| 3 | Ryan Williams | Courage | 2024 | Defender | 0.656 |
| 4 | Hanna Lundkvist | San Diego Wave | 2025 | Defender | 0.632 |
| 5 | Claire Hutton | Bay | 2026 | Midfielder | 0.616 |
| 6 | Esme Morgan | Spirit | 2026 | Defender | 0.615 |
| 7 | Jess Carter | Gotham FC | 2024 | Defender | 0.615 |
| 8 | Haley McCutcheon | Dash | 2021 | Defender | 0.608 |
| 9 | Lauren Milliet | Racing Lou | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.604 |
| 10 | Caprice Dydasco | Dash | 2023 | Defender | 0.602 |