Nadiem Amiri
1. FSV Mainz 05 · Midfielder · Germany · 1,854 min
Ballity Verdict
What makes this player special?
Nadiem Amiri is the kind of midfielder coaches build possession around. At 1. FSV Mainz 05, 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 Amiri from ordinary specialists is breadth inside a coherent family: credible as deep-lying playmaker, and still trustworthy when asked to step toward box crasher. That is versatility with a purpose — not a random scatter of average roles.
On the pitch he has actually been used as CM (#8) / DM (#6). That matters: skill-set breadth is one thing; demonstrated deployment is another. Amiri'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, box crasher, box-to-box midfielder, creator
- Shown minutes: CM (#8) / DM (#6)
- Known caveat: chance_creation
Receipts
- · Player Profile
- · Role Breadth
- · Deployment authenticity
- · Sample · featured
Position
Midfielder
Appearances
23
Great+ roles
4
Age
29
Preferred foot
Right
Height
180 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.
19.6% team touches
Peer band · Elite
Pool percentile
94.4%
Also 80.5 touches/90 (season aggregate).
Efficiency
Output quality per action for midfielders.
61 score
Peer band · Low
Pool percentile
40.2%
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
60.3
Breadth 33.5 · Depth 26.8
- ·Fullbacks: Overlapping FB (Elite), Playmaking FB (Elite)
- ·Midfielders: Box-to-Box Midfielder (Elite), Creator (Elite), Deep-Lying Playmaker (Great), Box Crasher (Great), Carrier (Good)
- ·Forwards: Target Man (Good)
Versatility shape
Coarse directional pattern (Specialist / Dual-threat / Generalist) — not the 0–100 Index above.
Generalist
Great GeneralistDistinct Great+
4 Great+ roles total
Box-to-box
GreatBox-to-Box Midfielder
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.
Vincenzo Grifo
SC Freiburg · Bundesliga 24/25
Closest roles
Box CrasherΔ5
CreatorΔ14
CarrierΔ9
Pablo Fornals
Real Betis · La Liga
Closest roles
- CreatorΔ9
Box-to-BoxΔ13- Box CrasherΔ12
Dominik Szoboszlai
Liverpool · PL 25/26
Closest roles
Deep-Lying PlaymakerΔ2- CreatorΔ10
- CarrierΔ5