Football Diagnosis

Ball-Playing Centre-BackA playmaker stationed in the back lineFootball Diagnosis

Illustration for Ball-Playing Centre-Back

Centre-Back

CB-1

Playing Style

Your main job is receiving in the middle of the back line and sliding vertical passes through the opponent's first wave. Head always on a swivel, you find teammates between the lines and deliver with the weight and angle that lets them turn.When things clog up, you swing a long ball to the far side and change the picture with one kick. Your calm on the ball means pressure never breaks your rhythm.Defensively you rely on reading the game, ending moves with interceptions before contact is needed. You'd rather already be standing there than have to chase.

Ability Ratings

Highest93Defensive Sense
Second highest90Kick Accuracy
Stamina
75
Pace
68
Attacking Sense
65
Defensive Sense
93
Ball Control
86
Dribbling
62
Kick Power
84
Kick Accuracy
90

Defensive Sense 93, Kick Accuracy 90, Ball Control 86. The defending numbers and the distributing numbers stand at the same height — the shape of a playmaker at the back.

What You're Like

In meetings you listen, then land the discussion with one final line that ties the threads together. Leading from the front isn't your style; you'd rather show the way once everyone has spoken.

The sight of someone panicking actually calms you down, so you end up chairing every crisis. Pressed for a snap decision, you still won't take a bet without grounds. When judgement is needed you check the premises before the conclusion, so discussions never drift off course.

The gap between thinking and moving, though, is long — while you're weighing everyone's availability, the restaurant books out. The one big sigh you allow yourself is for sloppy work. A tidy desk and a fixed order of operations are what keep you steady. You look slow to people in a hurry, but in hindsight your order usually turns out to have been the right one.

Your hobbies are quiet ones, and you use books and tools for years. Replacing something takes you ages to decide, but once decided you look after it astonishingly well. Give you unhurried time and you're content.

In the Mould Of

  • John StonesEngland
  • David AlabaAustria
  • Gerard PiquéSpain