Ana Tejada
Tejada with Real Sociedad in 2021
Personal information
Full name Ana Tejada Jiménez
Date of birth (2002-06-02) 2 June 2002[1]
Place of birth Logroño, Spain[2]
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Team information
Current team
 Real Sociedad
Number 3
Youth career
2015–2017 Logroño
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2019 Logroño 24+ (1+)
2019– Real Sociedad 86 (1)
International career‡
2018–2019 Spain U17 18 (0)
2019 Spain U19 2 (0)
2021–2023 Spain U23 7 (0)
2022 Spain U20 6 (0)
2022– Spain 1 (0)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Spain
UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
First place2018 Lithuania
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
First place2018 Uruguay
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
First place2022 Costa Rica
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 02:34, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 02:34, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Ana Tejada Jiménez (born 2 June 2002) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Liga F club Real Sociedad and the Spain women's national team.

Club career

Tejada as Logroño captain on 5 January 2019

Raised in the village of Lumbreras in La Rioja, Tejada started her career at Logroño,[3] where she was already playing for the first team when they achieved promotion to the Primera División in 2018,[4] making her the youngest active player in the top league, aged barely 16.[5][6]

A solid campaign with Logroño led to her being signed by Real Sociedad in 2019. With her first campaign in San Sebastián interrupted by injury and then the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain,[7] she became a regular for the txuri-urdin in the 2020–21 season, starting 24 matches.[2]

International career

Tejada was a member of the Spain under-17 squad that qualified for the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship in May 2018 (Lithuania) and the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup played six months later (Uruguay),[5] winning both competitions.[8] She was still young enough to play in the 2019 Under-17 Euros (Bulgaria)[9] and was named in the 'Team of the Tournament', as she had been in the previous year.[5] She later won the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and made her senior debut on 11 November 2022, as a 76th-minute substitute in a 7–0 friendly home win over Argentina.

Honours

Spain U17

Spain U20

Individual


References

  1. ↑ Ana Tejada at Soccerway. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Tejada". BDFutbol. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Tejada". Txapeldunak. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "Lumbreras homenajea a la futbolista Ana Tejada" [Lumbreras honours footballer Ana Tejada]. Rioja 2 (in Spanish). 19 August 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 "Ana Tejada, el talento precoz de la Liga que sueña con hacer historia en el Mundial" [Ana Tejada, the Liga's precocious talent looking to make history at the World Cup]. Eurosport (in Spanish). 14 November 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  6. ↑ "Ana Tejada, una veterana de 16 años" [Ana Tejada, a 16-year-old veteran]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 3 May 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  7. ↑ "Ana Tejada: "Venir a la Real Sociedad me ha venido muy bien para madurar"" [Ana Tejada: "Coming to Real Sociedad has been very good for me to mature"]. El Desmarque (in Spanish). 18 May 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  8. ↑ "El planeta a sus pies con 16 años: Ana Tejada, campeona del mundo" [The planet at her feet at 16 years old: Ana Tejada, world champion]. nuevecuatrouno (in Spanish). 2 December 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  9. ↑ "Las riojanas Ana Tejada y Sara Carrillo, al Europeo de Bulgaria sub-17" [The Riojans Ana Tejada and Sara Carrillo, to the European Under-17 Bulgaria]. nuevecuatrouno (in Spanish). 18 April 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  10. ↑ "Pina-inspired Spain win maiden U-17 Women's World Cup title". FIFA.com. 1 December 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  11. ↑ "Germany win Women's 17 EURO: At a glance". UEFA.com. 16 May 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  12. ↑ "Paralluelo propels Spain to revenge and glory". FIFA.com. 28 August 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  13. ↑ "2018 Women's Under-17 EURO team of the tournament". UEFA.com. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
  14. ↑ "2019 WU17 EURO team of the tournament". UEFA.com. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2023.
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