Fatima Rama
Papua New Guinean footballer
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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.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 28 January 1981 | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| PAG Port Moresby | |||
| International career‡ | |||
| 2014 | Papua New Guinea | 1[1] | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals as of 29 October 2014[2] | |||
Career
Rama was a senior women's national team representative in football (soccer) before she switched codes to become a rugby union player.
2018
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
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
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]
