Ina Budestean (born 3 February 1987) is a Moldovan former
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
who played as a
goalkeeper. She has been a member of the
Moldova women's national team.
Born and raised in Moldova, Budestean played with the country under-19 football team in 2002, and in 2005 she made her debut in the
UEFA Women's Cup (now UEFA Women's Champions League) with FC Codru Anenii Noi.
[ She became ]cap-tied
Cap-tied is an adjective, used primarily in association football, to describe a player who has represented a senior national football team in more than three games (including at least one competitive game) and as a result is unable to represent a ...
to Moldova on 7 May 2006, when she had already made more than three official appearances for the senior team, all of them happening at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA second category).[ After that, the Moldovan senior team was disbanded. Some time later, she accepted a proposal from the Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan to represent that nation using a new name, Ina Boyko, and a new date of birth, four years younger than originally registered with UEFA as player for Moldova. She played then with the Azerbaijan under-19 team at the 2009 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship second qualifying round and the 2010 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship first qualifying round and with the Azerbaijan senior team at the 2011 World Cup qualifiers.]CIS
Cis or cis- may refer to:
Places
* Cis, Trentino, in Italy
* In Poland:
** Cis, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, south-central
** Cis, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, north
Math, science and biology
* cis (mathematics) (cis(''θ'')), a trigonome ...
countries. As a naturalized Azerbaijani citizen, she played for Lithuanian club Gintra Universitetas
FC Gintra is a Lithuanian women's football club from Å iauliai. It is the team of the local Å iauliai University.
History
The club plays in the highest Lithuanian league, the A Lyga and has won 13 championships so far. The fourth one in 2005 and ...
at the UEFA Women's Champions League.[ On 19 February 2015, Budestean played with the senior Moldova women's national team in a 1–4 friendly loss to Romanian club ]FCU Olimpia Cluj
Fotbal Club U Olimpia Cluj-Napoca, commonly known as FCU Olimpia Cluj, or simply as U Olimpia Cluj, is a women's football team from Cluj-Napoca in Romania. It is Romania's top women's football club, having won all league titles since its incep ...
.[ Shortly after, she joined Swedish ]Elitettan
Elitettan ( en, The Elite First) is the second highest division of Swedish women's football. Contested by 14 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation
In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are ...
club Östersunds DFF.[
]
See also
*List of Moldova women's international footballers
This is a non-exhaustive list of Moldova women's international footballers – association football players who have appeared at least once for the senior Moldova women's national football team.
Players
See also
* Moldova women's nationa ...
Notes
References
1987 births
Living people
Footballers from Chișinău
Moldovan women's footballers
Women's association football goalkeepers
Gintra Universitetas players
Moldova women's international footballers
Moldovan expatriate women's footballers
Moldovan expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania
Expatriate women's footballers in Lithuania
Moldovan expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden
Azerbaijan women's international footballers
Dual internationalists (women's football)
Naturalized citizens of Azerbaijan
Naturalised association football players
{{Moldova-women-footy-bio-stub