Ana Poghosian

Ana Botuna (née Poghosyan, also spelled Poghosian, Pogosian and Pogosyan; born 14 July 1984), known in association football as Ana Pogosian[3] (Georgian: ანა პოღოსიანი),[2] is a Georgian retired[2] rugby sevens player and a current footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Championship club Chkhorotsku and the Georgia women's national team. She is of both Armenian and Georgian descent.[2]

Ana Pogosian
Personal information
Full name Ana Botuna
Birth name Ana Poghosyan
Date of birth (1984-07-14) 14 July 1984[1]
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Forward,[2] midfielder[3]
Team information
Current team
 Chkhorotsku
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
FC Iveria
Norchi Dinamoeli
201?–2019 Nike[2]
2019– Chkhorotsku[4]
International career‡
2009– Georgia 8 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 September 2015[1]

Rugby career

Poghosian began playing rugby in 2005, when the sport began in Georgia. She captained the Georgia Lady 7s team that played in their first European Championship in 2008. She also participates in forwarding the sport in Georgia by refereeing the "Didi 10", a Georgian championship.

The Georgian sevens team moved from division B to division A in 2012.

By 2013, the Lady Lelos were playing in multiple tournaments a year. In 2013 alone, they played in Odessa International Women Sevens (finishing in third place) and Amsterdam Sevens (finishing fifth out of sixteen teams).

In June 2013, she and the Georgian national sevens team, nicked named the Lady Lelos, went to Prague to compete in the Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Division A (then called the FIRA–AER Women's Sevens). She captained the team.[5]

The Georgian Lady Sevens attended four tournaments in 2015: Ghent International Tournament, Nancy's Lady Sevens and Amsterdam Sevens, and the European Championship.[6]

Poghosian was presented with the Female Rugby Player of 2014 and 2015, in partnership with UN Women.[7]

References
  1. Ana Poghosian at Soccerway. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. "სამზარეულოშიც სპორტზე ვფიქრობ..." (in Georgian). 15 May 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  3. Ana Poghosian – UEFA competition record (archive)
  4. Tsiklauri, Lasha (12 June 2019). "საქართველოს ქალთა საფეხბურთო ნაკრები ორ ამხანაგურ შეხვედრას გამართავს" [Georgian women's football team will hold two friendly matches] (in Georgian). Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  5. "Lady Lelos to European Championship". webcache.googleusercontent.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-09. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  6. "Georgian Lady Sevens left for Athens Cup". webcache.googleusercontent.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-09. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  7. "Ana Poghosian – The Best Female Rugby Player of 2015". UN Women | Georgia. Retrieved 2019-12-26.


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