Salma Paralluelo

In this Spanish name, the family name is Paralluelo.

Salma Paralluelo

File:Salma Paralluelo 2019.jpg Paralluelo in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Salma Celeste Paralluelo Ayingono
Date of birth	(2003-11-13) 13 November 2003
Place of birth	Zaragoza, Spain
Height
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Barcelona
Youth career
	San José
	Zaragoza CFF
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
	Zaragoza CFF B
	Zaragoza CFF
2019–2022	Villarreal	37	(23)
2022–	Barcelona	0	(0)
International career‡
2018–2019	Spain U17	18	(9)
2022–	Spain U19	3	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 May 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 12 April 2022

Salma Celeste Paralluelo Ayingono (born 13 November 2003) is a Spanish professional footballer and former sprinter who plays as a winger for Primera División club FC Barcelona.

Early life

Paralluelo was born in Zaragoza to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean Fang mother.

Club career

Paralluelo is a UD San José product. She has played for Zaragoza CFF and Villarreal in Spain.

International career

Paralluelo won the 2018 UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship and the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup representing Spain. She is also eligible to play for Equatorial Guinea.

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 atime 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.

External links

• Profile at BDFutbol
• Salma Paralluelo on Instagram