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Rodrigo Zalazar

Uruguay · the desk

Midfield, Uruguay

Club football at Sporting Clube de Braga.

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

    Midfield

    Uruguay

  • club

    Sporting Clube de Braga

    football-data.org

  • club tier

    1848

    ClubElo strength

  • our board

    #375

    of 1424 rated players

  • folded so far

    1797′

    27 appearances

  • transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers

    30.00

    98th percentile of peers

Sourced

squad
Uruguay · Midfieldfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
club
Sporting Clube de Bragafootball-data.org · 2026-06-29

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

Our rating · the working

the board

1819 ±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

1812 full roster Elo (6 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

at or near his peak, no projected upside from age

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 Uruguay's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
1769
age curve at 26 (midfields' curve)the position's measured peak, no discount either way
+0
transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
+50
quality rating · club, age + measured output
1819
form: national-team results, 27 appearances1797 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
-6
full roster Elo · with results
1812

Where the +50 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
30.00 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
his rank
98th percentile of qualified peers
scored from
the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
the arithmetic
46 pts/σ × z(98.5th) = 46 × 2.17 × 0.5 (position weight) = +50

A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-05-11. 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

    #375 of 1424 rated players on our board.

What he’d cost · our estimate

€12m€46m €23m

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 1848the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
×3.46
ageage 26, in the fee-peak window (24–27)
×1.00
midfielder fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
×0.90
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
€23m

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: €5m (2023-07). Our estimate today: ≈ €23m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.

our read: undervalued , we rate him 366% above his last market price (a gem signal, context only)

  • 2023-07-14FC Schalke 04 SC Braga€5m
  • 2022-07-01Eintracht Frankfurt FC Schalke 04€1.5m
  • 2021-08-04Eintracht Frankfurt FC Schalke 04loan
  • 2021-07-01FC St. Pauli Eintracht Frankfurtundisclosed

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

In our coverage · Uruguay’s record

  • v Spain0–1Called it
  • v Cape Verde2–2Missed it
  • at Saudi Arabia1–1Missed it

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

Squad · sourced