Iván Martín
Girona FC · Midfielder · Spain · 1,668 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Iván Martín is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At Girona FC, his real value is not goals or highlight assists — it is how cleanly he moves the team from safe zones into dangerous ones, almost never giving the ball away cheaply. Ballity's clearest read is deep-lying playmaker: he controls games more than he decides them.
What separates Martín from ordinary specialists is breadth inside a coherent family: credible as deep-lying playmaker, and still trustworthy when asked to step toward carrier. That is versatility with a purpose — not a random scatter of average roles.
On the pitch he has actually been used as CM (#8) / AM (#10). That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Martín's authenticity claim starts from those minutes, not from a role board alone.
The trade-off is real: chance_creation 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
- Midfield / role totality: deep-lying playmaker, carrier, box-to-box midfielder
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / AM (#10)
- Known caveat: chance_creation
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · featured
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
20
Great+ roles
2
Age
27
Preferred foot
Left
Height
178 cm
Ballity insights
Peer context vs midfielders — how often they get the ball and what they do with it. Separate from role tiers above.
Usage rate
Share of team touches (non-GK) among midfielders with match data.
26.5% team touches
Peer band · Elite
Pool percentile
91.5%
Also 72.6 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
68 score
Peer band · Elite
Pool percentile
88.8%
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 Chance Creation (Elite), Ball Progressor (Elite)
Weak routes
Stat profile
Within Midfielder 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
31.4
Breadth 20.1 · Depth 11.3
- ·Fullbacks: Playmaking FB (Great)
- ·Midfielders: Deep-Lying Playmaker (Great), Carrier (Great), Box-to-Box Midfielder (Good)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Dual-threat
Great Dual-threatDistinct Great+
2 Great+ roles total
Where he plays
Positions with deployment evidence — not statistical guesses.
Natural
Role translations
Where the profile could fit. Tap a position — then see which role style suits it.
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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 midfielder 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.
Kirian Rodríguez
Las Palmas · La Liga 24/25
Closest roles
Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ5
CarrierΔ9
Box-to-BoxΔ26
Aljoscha Kemlein
1. FC Union Berlin · Bundesliga
Closest roles
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ16
- CarrierΔ24
- Box-to-BoxΔ40
Benjamin Stambouli
Metz · Ligue 1
Closest roles
- CarrierΔ18
- Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ23
- Box-to-BoxΔ42