Ina Budestean

{{short description|Moldovan-Azerbaijani football goalkeeper|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| fullname = Ina Budestean{{efn|Full name in her Moldovan nationality.{{UEFA player|id=67144|name=Ina Budestean}}}}
Ina Boyko{{efn|Full name in the Azerbaijani nationality was given.{{UEFA player|id=250039320|name=Ina Budestean (as Ina Boyko)}}}}

| birth_name = Ina Budeștean{{Cite web|url=http://old.fmf.md/ro/news/read/selectionata_feminina_amicale_olimpia|title=Fotbal feminin / Moldova - Olimpia 1-4 (video)|website=Moldovan Football Federation|language=ro|date=19 February 2015|accessdate=8 May 2020}}{{Dead link|date=April 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1987|2|3}}{{efn|Competing as Ina Boyko, the displayed date of birth was {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1991|2|3}}.}}

| birth_place = Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, USSR

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| position = Goalkeeper

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| years1 = {{0|0000}}–200?

| clubs1 = Codru Chisinau

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| years2 = 201?–2014

| clubs2 = Gintra Universitetas

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| years3 = 2015

| clubs3 = Östersunds DFF

| caps3 = 16

| goals3 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 2002–200?

| nationalteam1 = Moldova U-19

| nationalcaps1 = 12

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| nationalyears2 = 2005–2015

| nationalteam2 = Moldova

| nationalcaps2 = 6{{Cite web|url=http://curentul.md/stiri/fotbalistele-moldovence-participante-la-mondiale-si-europene-editorial.html|title=Fotbalistele moldovence participante la Mondiale și Europene (editorial)|date=9 November 2019|language=ro|accessdate=9 May 2020|first=Andrei|last=Prodan|website=Curentul.md}}

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| nationalyears4 = 2009

| nationalteam4 = Azerbaijan U-19

| nationalcaps4 = 6

| nationalgoals4 = 0

| nationalyears5 = 2009

| nationalteam5 = Azerbaijan

| nationalcaps5 = 3

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Ina Budestean (born 3 February 1987) is a Moldovan former footballer 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 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,{{Cite web|url=https://qol.az/?name=xeber&news_id=9350|title=AFFA UEFA-nın qərarından şikayət verdi|date=10 January 2010|accessdate=8 May 2020}} 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{{Cite news|url=https://www2.svenskfotboll.se/arkiv/landslag/2009/10/dam-lcaroline-seger-tvamalsskytt-mot-azerbajdzjan/|date=24 October 2009|title=Dam: Caroline Seger tvåmålsskytt mot Azerbajdzjan|website=Swedish Football Association|accessdate=8 May 2020}} and with the Azerbaijan senior team at the 2011 World Cup qualifiers.{{Soccerway|id=101729|name=Ina Budestean (as Ina Boyko)|accessdate=8 May 2020}} Azerbaijan uses to recruit players from other CIS countries. As a naturalized Azerbaijani citizen, she played for Lithuanian club Gintra Universitetas at the UEFA Women's Champions League.{{Cite web|url=http://almis.sritis.lt/ltuwomclgames.html|website=Lithuanian soccer|title=Lithuania Women's games|accessdate=8 May 2020}} In January 2010, she was found by UEFA as ineligible to play for Azerbaijan.{{Cite web|url=https://qol.az/?name=xeber&news_id=14853|title=ŞOK: AFFA milli komandanın fəaliyyətini dayandırdı|accessdate=9 May 2020}} She has then received a ban from club and international competitions until 30 November 2010.{{Cite news|url=https://mia.az/w22530/22530|title=UEFA AFFA-nı 60 min avro cərimələdi|date=12 January 2010|accessdate=9 May 2020}} By 2014, she resumed to play as Ina Budestean, being still the Gintra Universitetas first-choice goalkeeper.{{Soccerway|id=139964|name=Ina Budestean|accessdate=8 May 2020}} 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. Shortly after, she joined Swedish Elitettan club Östersunds DFF.