Jabamani Tudu (born 10 April 2000) is an Indian professional

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who plays as a defender for the

Indian Women's League The Indian Women's League (abbreviated as the IWL) is the women's top tier professional football league in India, founded in 2016. Currently, a total of 8 teams from across the country participate in the league. The competition was planned ...

club Nita FA and the

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Early life

Born in

Mayurbhanj district Mayurbhanj district is one of the List of districts of Odisha, 30 districts of Odisha state in eastern India and the largest in the state by area, nearly equivalent to Tripura. The district's headquarters is located in Baripada, with other majo ...

Odisha Odisha (), formerly Orissa (List of renamed places in India, the official name until 2011), is a States and union territories of India, state located in East India, Eastern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by ar ...

, Tudu was a part of the Odisha Sports Hostel. She has played in youth and senior football tournaments. She has also played for Odisha in national competitions, both youth and senior.

International career

Tudu represented India at the under-16 level during the 2015 AFC U-16 Championship qualifiers. In December 2016 Tudu was selected into the Indian senior side for the

2016 SAFF Women's Championship The 2016 SAFF Women's Championship was the 4th edition of the SAFF Women's Championship, the biennial international women's football championship contested by the national teams of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). The tournament be ...

. She made her debut for the side on 2 January 2017 in their semi-final match against

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. She came on as a substitute for Dalima Chhibber as India won 3–1. She made her debut as a 15-year-old.

International goals

:''Scores and results list India's goal tally first.''

Honours

India *

SAFF Women's Championship The SAFF Women's Championship, also called the ''South Asian Football Federation Women's Cup'', is a competition for women's national football teams governed by the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF). All seven members are eligible to partici ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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Gold medal:

Rising Students Club *

: 2017–18 Odisha * National Games Silver medal:

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

Individual * Indian Women's League Emerging Player: 2016–17

References

External links

Orisports profile

Jabamani Tudu
at All India Football Federation * Living people 2000 births Indian women's footballers People from Mayurbhanj district Sportswomen from Odisha Footballers from Odisha India women's international footballers India women's youth international footballers Women's association football forwards Sethu FC players Kickstart FC players Nita FA players Indian Women's League players South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Games medalists in football {{India-footy-forward-stub