Pico Lopes World Cup 2026 player profile
Pico Lopes is listed for Cape Verde 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
Pico Lopes 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 0 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- squad-support player in this data package, ranked 13 by impact inside the Cape Verde squad and 3 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 | Cape Verde |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 45 |
| International goals | 0 |
| Impact score | 69 |
| Squad impact rank | 13 |
| Role impact rank | 3 |
| 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 | 61 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA rank | 67 |
| Group path | H |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 32 |
Cape Verde fixtures
- Spain vs Cape VerdeFinished 0-0 · Jun 16, 00:00 · Atlanta
- Uruguay vs Cape VerdeScheduled · Jun 22, 06:00 · Miami (Miami Gardens)
- Cape Verde vs Saudi ArabiaScheduled · Jun 27, 08:00 · Houston
Related teammates
- Ryan MendesForward · impact 96
- Garry RodriguesMidfielder · impact 86
- Jamiro MonteiroMidfielder · impact 79
- VozinhaGoalkeeper · impact 77
- StopiraDefender · impact 77
- Dailon LivramentoForward · impact 73
- Willy SemedoMidfielder · impact 72
- Logan CostaDefender · impact 71
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Cape Verde 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.