Salma Paralluelo

Salma Paralluelo
Salma Celeste Paralluelo Ayingono (born 13 November 2003) is a Spanish professional footballer and former sprinter who plays as a left winger for Liga F club Barcelona and the Spain women's national team. She is the first ever player to have won all three World Cups of the same gender, having won the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, and 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
Early life
Paralluelo was born in Zaragoza to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean Fang mother, the latter having moved from Equatorial Guinea so that her son from a previous relationship with a severe congenital vision deficiency could receive better medical treatment in Spain. In December 2012, when the young man was 21 years old, he disappeared in Zaragoza and his body was found the following month. Apart from the aforementioned, she has two more brothers, José Jaime and Lorenzo, both footballers.
Club career
Paralluelo is a product of UD San José in Zaragoza. She has played for Zaragoza CFF and Villarreal in Spain. She is also a 2022 FIFA Puskás Award nominee.
She signed for FC Barcelona at the end of the 2021–22 season, after her contract with Villarreal ended.
International career
Paralluelo is cap-tied to Spain. She was also eligible to play for Equatorial Guinea.
She won the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship, the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup, and made her senior debut on 11 November 2022, starting and scoring a hat-trick in a 7-0 friendly home win over Argentina.
She was included in the Spain squad list for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. During the quarter-final match against the Netherlands on 11 August, she scored the winning goal in a 2–1 victory after extra time, to qualify Spain for the first time in history into the semi-finals of a World Cup.
On 15 August 2023, she scored a goal in Spain's 2–1 victory over Sweden to take her team to its first senior World Cup final.
Athletics
As an athlete, Paralluelo began her career at the San José Athletics club in Zaragoza and shortly after joined the Scorpio-71 club in Zaragoza. In late 2019 she went to Playas de Castellón. She won her first medal at the 2019 Spanish Indoor Athletics Championships, winning bronze in the 400-meter test with a mark of 53.83s, a Spanish national record in the sub-18 and sub-20 categories. Her result also allowed her to participate in the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships, being the second youngest athlete in history to do so, after the Norwegian walker Kjersti Tysse.
In the outdoor season, in the third race of her entire life over the 400 meter hurdles, during the Ibero-American Athletics Meeting in Huelva, Paralluelo ran a time of 57.43, beating the all-time best Spanish sub-18 record and also breaking that years sub-18 world best time. With this result she was also qualified for the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, where she won two gold medals in the 400m hurdles event with a time of 57.95.
Career statistics
Club
International
Scores and results list Spain's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Paralluelo goal.
Honours
FC Barcelona
Primera División: 2022–23
Supercopa de España: 2023
UEFA Women's Champions League: 2022–23
Spain
FIFA Women's World Cup: 2023
Spain U20
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup: 2022
Spain U17
UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship: 2018
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup: 2018
Individual
FIFA Women's World Cup Young Player Award: 2023
433 – Women's Talent of the Year: 2022–23
Hija Predilecta de Zaragoza (2023)
Ballon d'Or Féminin 3rd place: 2023
References
External links
Salma Paralluelo at FC Barcelona
Salma Paralluelo at BDFutbol
2003 births
Living people
Footballers from Zaragoza
Spanish women's footballers
Women's association football wingers
Zaragoza CFF players
Villarreal CF (women) players
FC Barcelona Femení players
Segunda Federación (women) players
Liga F players
Spain women's youth international footballers
Spain women's international footballers
Spanish female sprinters
Spanish sportspeople of Equatoguinean descent
21st-century Spanish women
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players
FIFA Women's World Cup-winning players