Fábio Vieira
Hamburger SV · Forward · Portugal · 2,215 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Fábio Vieira is at his best when the game opens into one-versus-one battles out wide. For Hamburger SV, that means stretch, isolation, and the ability to beat a full-back before the box gets crowded — not a pure chance-creation spreadsheet profile. The headline trait is duelist winger.
He is not trying to be everything. The profile is concentrated: do duelist winger at a high level, and let secondary tasks stay secondary.
On the pitch he has actually been used as RW / SS. That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Vieira's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.
The trade-off is real: duelist shows up as a structural caveat in the profile. Any club buying the upside has to decide whether that hole is tolerable in their system — or whether they will need complementary players beside him.
Why Ballity says this
- Clearest current facet: duelist winger (great)
- Shown minutes: RW / SS
- Known caveat: duelist
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · featured
Position
Wide Forward
Appearances
29
Great+ roles
1
Age
26
Preferred foot
Left
Height
170 cm
Balance & structural weaknesses
How complete this player is on the position's job board — strengths and holes.
How we define this
Two-way = Great+ on ≥2 complementary axes. One-way = every other route Limited/closed. Weak routes = Average holes on complementary axes.
Strong as Duelist (Great)
Weak routes
Defensive contribution
Proxy only · confidence: proxy — not a role tier
Proxy p60 · Actions p39 within winger peers
Stat profile
Within position peers — percentile shape (not role scores).
Versatility Index
Precise 0–100 score — cross-group breadth (67%) plus within-group depth (33%), quality-scaled by tier. Distinct from the shape card below.
Index
47.2
Breadth 23.5 · Depth 23.7
- ·Midfielders: Deep-Lying Playmaker (Elite), Carrier (Great), Creator (Great), Ball Winner (Good), Box Crasher (Good), Duel Destroyer (Good)
- ·Wingers: Duelist Winger (Great), Playmaking Winger (Good), Wide Runner (Good)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Specialist
Great SpecialistDistinct Great+
1 Great+ roles total
Where he plays
Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.
Natural
Role translations
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Role-by-role detail
How each role is scored. Expand a row for a radar of role-shaped stats.
Similar players
Shape match across forward roles — cosine similarity of role scores (domestic leagues only). Slot 1 is the best same-league match; the rest are the next closest from the full pool.
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Borussia Dortmund · Bundesliga
Closest roles
Shadow StrikerΔ29
Channel RunnerΔ39
Target ManΔ43
Edu Expósito
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Closest roles
- Shadow StrikerΔ8
- Channel RunnerΔ8
- Target ManΔ1
Donny van de Beek
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Closest roles
- Shadow StrikerΔ0
- Channel RunnerΔ1
- Target ManΔ7