Spain are through to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup finals for the first time ever having seen their beautiful African star shine on the global stage.
Salma Paralluelo has been widely considered as one of the future stars of the Spain women’s national team.
The 19-year-old Barça Femeni winger has been in stellar form for Spain at the ongoing 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
During the quarter-final match against the Netherlands on 11 August, Paralluelo 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.
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Paralluelo would register her name on the scoresheet again after opened the scoring in Spain's 2-1 victory against Sweden to take her team to its first senior World Cup final.
According to Pulse Sports, Salma Paralluelo is considered amongst the most beautiful female footballers at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
In this article, we look at some Top facts about the Spanish teenage sensation who has lit up the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup with her beauty and performances on the pitch.
Top 5 Interesting Facts about Salma Paralluelo
1. Who is Salma Paralluelo?
Salma Celeste Paralluelo Ayingono is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Liga F club FC Barcelona and the Spain women's national team.
Before signing for Barca Femeni, Paralluelo had played for Zaragoza CFF and Villarreal in Spain. A product of UD San José, Salma Paralluelo is also a 2022 FIFA Puskás Award nominee.
With Spain, 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 Spain’s squad list for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australi and New Zealand and has netted twice in 6 appearances so far.
2. Salma Paralluelo Age
Salma Paralluelo was born November 13, 2003 in Zaragoza, Spain.
As of August 2023, she is 19 years old.
3. She is of African descent
Paralluelo is of African descent, having been born to a Spanish father and Equatorial Guinean Fang mother.
Her father's name is Jaime Paralluelo and her mother's name is Diosdada Ayingono.
Salma Paralluelo is the only daughter of her parents' three children.
She was eligible to play for Equatorial Guinea, although, she is now cap-tied to Spain.
4. She is a former sprinter
Interestingly, Salma Paralluelo is a former sprinter, and that explains her blistering pace on the football pitch.
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.
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.
However, shortly after, she switched to football professionally.
5. Salma Paralluelo Social Media
As mentioned earlier, Salma Paralluelo is one of the most beautiful female footballers in the world and one of the sexiest Spanish female footballers of her generation.
Paralluelo’s rise has seen her following on social media grow sporadically over the last three years.
As of August 2023, she has over 182K followers on her Instagram page, where she most posts snaps of her business on the pitch, and training.
However, that number is expected to go up after Spain qualified for the finals of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
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