Cornelius Derek World Cup 2026 player profile
Cornelius Derek is listed for Canada as a Defender. Kickoff Lens uses caps, goals, career context, role, and team strength to explain how this player can affect fixture reads.
Deep player read
Cornelius Derek is currently classified as a squad-support defender: established international, defensive role profile, and useful aerial size. This is a derived Kickoff Lens profile built from the public squad fields, not a private scouting report.
- established international; 45 caps and 1 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- squad-support player in this data package, ranked 14 by impact inside the Canada squad and 4 among defender entries.
- defensive role 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 | Canada |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 45 |
| International goals | 1 |
| Impact score | 70 |
| Squad impact rank | 14 |
| Role impact rank | 4 |
| Role profile | squad-support · defensive role 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 protect the box when the opponent's attack signal rises?
- 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 | 73 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA rank | 30 |
| Group path | B |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 37 |
Canada fixtures
- Canada vs Bosnia and HerzegovinaFinished 1-1 · Jun 13, 03:00 · Toronto
- Canada vs QatarScheduled · Jun 19, 06:00 · Vancouver
- Switzerland vs CanadaScheduled · Jun 25, 03:00 · Vancouver
Related teammates
- Davies AlphonsoDefender · impact 96
- David JonathanForward · impact 96
- Larin CyleForward · impact 96
- Osorio JonathanMidfielder · impact 92
- Buchanan TajonForward · impact 92
- Kone IsmaelMidfielder · impact 81
- Eustaquio StephenMidfielder · impact 78
- Millar LiamMidfielder · impact 78
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Canada 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.