Ana Tejada Jiménez (born 2 June 2002) is a Spanish professional

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who plays as a centre back for

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club

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and the Spain women's national team.

Club career

Raised in the village of

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in La Rioja, Tejada started her career at Logroño, where she was already playing for the first team when they achieved promotion to the

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in 2018, making her the youngest active player in the top league, aged barely 16. A solid campaign with Logroño led to her being signed by Real Sociedad in 2019. With her first campaign in

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interrupted by injury and then the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, she became a regular for the ''txuri-urdin'' in the 2020–21 season, starting 24 matches.

International career

Tejada was a member of the Spain under-17 squad that qualified for the

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in May 2018 (Lithuania) and the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup played six months later (Uruguay), winning both competitions. She was still young enough to play in the 2019 Under-17 Euros (Bulgaria) and was named in the 'Team of the Tournament', as she had been in the previous year. She later won the

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and made her senior debut on 11 November 2022, as a 76th-minute substitute in a 7–0 friendly home win over

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