Salma Paralluelo
Paralluelo in 2023
Personal information
Full name Salma Celeste Paralluelo Ayingono
Date of birth (2003-11-13) 13 November 2003[1]
Place of birth Zaragoza, Spain[1]
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Left winger[2]
Team information
Current team
 Barcelona
Number 7
Youth career
San José
Zaragoza CFF
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Zaragoza CFF B
Zaragoza CFF
2019–2022 Villarreal 8 (3)
2022– Barcelona 26 (18)
International career‡
2018–2019 Spain U17 20 (9)
2022 Spain U19 3 (1)
2022 Spain U20 5 (3)
2022– Spain 18 (9)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Spain
FIFA Women's World Cup
Winner2023 Australia–New Zealand
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
Winner2022 Costa Rica
FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
Winner2018 Uruguay
UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
Winner2018 Lithuania
Women's athletics
Representing  Spain
European Youth Olympic Festival
Gold medal – first place2019 Baku400 m hurdles
Gold medal – first place2019 BakuMedley relay
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:45, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 December 2023

Salma Celeste Paralluelo Ayingono (listenⓘ; 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.[3]

Early life

Paralluelo was born in Zaragoza to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean Fang mother,[4][5] 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.[5] In December 2012, when the young man was 21 years old, he disappeared in Zaragoza and his body was found the following month.[6][7] Apart from the aforementioned, she has two more brothers, José Jaime and Lorenzo, both footballers.[8]

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.[9]

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.[10] 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.[11]

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.[12]

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

As of match played 6 January 2024[13]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup[lower-alpha 1] Continental[lower-alpha 2] Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Villarreal 2021–22 Primera División 8310––93
Barcelona 2022–23 Liga F 181112912[lower-alpha 3]13015
2023–24 870045001212
Total 261812136214227
Career total 342122136215130

International

As of match played 5 December 2023
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Spain 202223
2023166
Total189
Scores and results list Spain's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Paralluelo goal.
List of international goals scored by Salma Paralluelo
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
111 November 2022Estadio Municipal Álvarez Claro, Melilla, Spain Argentina3–07–0Friendly
24–0
35–0
46 April 2023Estadi Municipal de Can Misses, Ibiza, Spain Norway3–14–2Friendly
54–1
65 July 2023Gladsaxe Stadium, Gladsaxe, Denmark Denmark2–02–0Friendly
711 August 2023Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand Netherlands2–12–12023 FIFA Women's World Cup
815 August 2023Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand Sweden1–02–12023 FIFA Women's World Cup
95 December 2023La Rosaleda Stadium, Málaga, Spain Sweden1–15–32023–24 UEFA Women's Nations League

Honours

FC Barcelona

Spain

Spain U20
Spain U17

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Salma Paralluelo Women's First Division". La Liga. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "PARALLUELO – 11". Villarreal CF. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  3. ↑ "Paralluelo crosses finish line with third winners' medal". FIFA.com. FIFA. 21 August 2023. Archived from the original on 8 September 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
  4. ↑ "Salma Paralluelo, la futbolista y velocista que bate todos los récords". El País.
  5. 1 2 "Continúa la búsqueda de Florencio Ayingono Eworo | Entrevista con su madre, Diosdada Ayingono".
  6. ↑ "Denuncian la desaparición de un joven universitario en Zaragoza".
  7. ↑ "Aparece sin signos de violencia el cadáver del universitario desaparecido en Zaragoza".
  8. ↑ "Los hermanos Paralluelo brillan con fuerza en la 'Cantera Grogueta'". El Periódico Mediterráneo. 2 December 2019.
  9. ↑ "Salma Paralluelo signs for FC Barcelona". www.fcbarcelona.com. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  10. ↑ "La lista oficial para el Mundial de Australia y Nueva Zelanda" [The official list for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand] (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. 30 June 2023.
  11. ↑ "Women's World Cup 2023: 'Great day' as Spain reach first semi-final despite off-field issues". BBC Sport. 11 August 2023.
  12. ↑ Downey, Sophie (15 August 2023). "Spain reach their first Women's World Cup final as late winner sinks Sweden". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  13. ↑ Salma Paralluelo at Soccerway
  14. ↑ Wrack, Suzanne (3 June 2023). "Rolfö caps Barcelona comeback against Wolfsburg to win thrilling WCL final". The Guardian. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 7 June 2023.
  15. ↑ "FIFA Women's World Cup awards: Bonmati wins Golden Ball". FIFA. 20 August 2023. Archived from the original on 21 August 2023. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  16. ↑ "This just in... You have voted 𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐌𝐀 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐋𝐎 as the 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 of the 433 Awards: 2022-23 Women's Talent of the Year! ✨💎". 433. 5 September 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2023.
  17. ↑ Trigo, Iván (7 October 2023). "Zaragoza distingue a sus hijos predilectos y adoptivos y entrega la Medalla de Oro al Grupo Carreras". El Periódico de Aragón. Prensa Ibérica.
  18. ↑ "IFFHS WOMEN'S WORLD BEST YOUTH (U20) PLAYER 2023". IFFHS. 28 December 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.
  19. ↑ "IFFHS WOMEN'S WORLD TEAM 2023". IFFHS. 4 January 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
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