Cucho Hernández

Club football at Real Betis Balompié.

Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.

At a glance

age
26
sourced with the squad
position
Offence
Colombia
club
Real Betis Balompié
football-data.org
club tier
1747
ClubElo strength
our board
#229
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
2742′
36 appearances
npxG per 90
0.39
95th percentile of peers

On the pitch

Chances created for Colombia, on the record.

goals
0
assists
1

goals and assists from our captured match events · caps and minutes from the appearance record

Sourced

squad: Colombia · Offencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: Real Betis Balompiéfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.

Our rating · the working

the board →

1877 ±45

his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.

How the number is builtopenclose

1931 full roster Elo (+54 from national-team results)

the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band

Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much

potential ~1942 ±45 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the offence age curve

Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.

starts at Colombia's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1808
age curve at 26 (offences' curve)young-side discount halved, his measured production overrides the average-youngster prior: -6
attacking output in club football, our xG modelhis percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons: +75
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1877
form: national-team results, 36 appearances2742 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +54
full roster Elo · with results: 1931

Where the +75 skill term comes from

Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.

measured: 0.39 npxG per 90
his rank: 95th percentile of qualified peers
scored from: recent club seasons, every shot scored by our own xG model
the arithmetic: 46 pts/σ × z(94.9th) = 46 × 1.64 = +75

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-18. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.

The notebook

The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.

standing
#229 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +54 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€15m–€57m ≈ €29m

Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.

The workingopenclose

reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill: €8m
club tier 1747the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×2.28
ageage 26, in the fee-peak window (24–27): ×1.00
attacker fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts: ×1.00
individual skillmeasured 95th percentile of peers: ×1.71
our estimate: ≈ €29m

fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.

The fee record · sourced

2025-02-03Columbus Crew → Real Betisundisclosed
2025-02-01Columbus Crew → Real Betisundisclosed
2022-06-21Watford → Columbus Crewundisclosed
2021-07-01Getafe → Watfordundisclosed

Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.

In our coverage · Colombia’s record

v Portugal0–0Missed it
v DR Congo1–0Called it
at Uzbekistan1–3Called it

The newsroom’s calls on Colombia. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.