José Cordoba

Defence, Panama

Club football at Norwich City FC.

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
24
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Panama
club
Norwich City FC
football-data.org
club tier
1560
ClubElo strength
our board
#1102
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
1881′
24 appearances

Sourced

squad: Panama · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club: Norwich City FCfootball-data.org · 2026-06-25

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

Our rating · the working

the board →

1594 ±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

1630 full roster Elo (+35 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 ~1641 ±46 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the defence 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 Panama's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point: 1609
age curve at 24 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls: -15
individual skill termour club xG models haven't seen enough of him for a confident read, so nothing is added, never guessed: +0
quality rating · club, age + measured output: 1594
form: national-team results, 24 appearances1881 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI: +35
full roster Elo · with results: 1630

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-27. 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
#1102 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have added +35 to the number he seeded with, he has outplayed his own prior.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€2.9m–€11m ≈ €5.7m

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 1560the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays: ×1.22
ageage 24, in the fee-peak window (24–27): ×1.00
defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts: ×0.58
individual skillour xG model has no confident read on him, priced on club, age and role only, so the band is wide: ×1.00
our estimate: ≈ €5.7m

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

The market’s last public word: €3.2m (2024-06). Our estimate today: ≈ €5.7m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: undervalued , we rate him 77% above his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

2024-06-14Levski Sofia → Norwich€3.2m
2022-04-05Independiente de La Chorrera → Levski Sofiaundisclosed
2021-09-07Independiente de La Chorrera → Levski Sofialoan
2021-02-02Independiente de La Chorrera → Etar Veliko Tarnovoloan

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

In our coverage · Panama’s record

v England0–2Called it
v Croatia0–1Called it
at Ghana1–0Missed it

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