Fatima Rama
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 28 January 1981 | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| PAG Port Moresby | |||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2014 | Papua New Guinea | 1[2] | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 October 2014[1] | |||
Fatima Rama (born 28 January 1981) is a Papua New Guinean football and rugby player. She played as a forward in football for the Papua New Guinea women's national football team. She has also represented PNG in rugby sevens and fifteens.
Career
[edit]Rama was a senior women's national team representative in football (soccer) before she switched codes to become a rugby union player.
2018
[edit]Rama competed at the Oceania Rugby Women's Championship, she scored a try against Samoa in the tournament's opening match, however, her side lost 45–56.[3]
2019–21
[edit]At the 2019 Sydney Women's Sevens, she scored a stunning try in the first half against the Black Ferns sevens despite her team's 38–5 loss.[4][5] In April 2019, she was named in the sevens squad to compete at the Hong Kong Women's Sevens to qualify as a core team for the 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.[6]
Rama represented Papua New Guinea in sevens at the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa.[7]
In 2021, due to her success in rugby union, the Satellite 7s executives decided to introduce the women's competition in hopes of finding more female players like her.[8]
2023
[edit]Rama was the oldest player, at age 41, to take the field at the 2023 New Zealand Women's Sevens in January.[5] She also competed at the 2023 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series in April; she scored a try for PNG against Hong Kong in their ninth-place semi-final, her side lost 7–44.[9]
Rama was named in PNG's fifteens squad for the 2023 Oceania Rugby Women's Championship in Gold Coast, Queensland.[10] She started in the opening game of the tournament against Fiji, her side were scoreless in their 77–0 loss.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Tonga 0-3 Papua New Guinea". Oceania Football Federation. 29 October 2014. Archived from the original on 29 October 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- ^ "Papua New Guinea 4-1 Cook Islands". Oceania Football Federation. 25 October 2014. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
- ^ Singh, Zanzeer (2018-11-16). "Oceania Rugby Women's Championship: Samoa defeats PNG". FijiTimes. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ "Black Ferns women continue strong play at Sydney world sevens". Stuff. 2019-02-01. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ a b "Tuwai returns to boost Fiji at HSBC New Zealand Sevens". www.women.rugby. 2023-01-19. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ "Sport: PNG Women's 7s team at full strength for World Series Qualifier". RNZ. 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ "PNG Rugby Union announces women's 7s team". Loop Nauru. 2019-06-27. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ "Rugby Union Challenge For Western Women". Loop PNG. 2021-12-30. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ "Hong Kong's men reach Challenger Series semi-finals, while women bounce back". South China Morning Post. 2023-04-21. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
- ^ "PNG RUGBY UNION INC". www.facebook.com. 2023-05-05. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
- ^ Biudole, Noa (2023-05-26). "Fijiana thrashes PNG in opener - FijiLive". fijilive.com. Retrieved 2023-05-26.
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- 1981 births
- Living people
- Women's association football forwards
- Papua New Guinean women's soccer players
- Papua New Guinea women's international soccer players
- Papua New Guinean female rugby union players
- Papua New Guinea international women's rugby sevens players
- Pacific Games bronze medalists for Papua New Guinea
- Pacific Games medalists in rugby sevens
- Pacific Games silver medalists for Papua New Guinea
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