Ángela Salvadores Álvarez (born 10 March 1997) is a Spanish
basketball
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player for Galician team
Durán Maquinaria Ensino. She played for
Duke Blue Devils
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during the 2015–16 season.
Club career
Early years
Salvadores started playing basketball in
León, firstly at CD Maristas and later at
CB Aros before joining the ''Segle XXI'', the basketball team promoted by the
Spanish Basketball Federation.
With Segle XXI, she joined the
Liga Femenina 2 team in 2013, averaging 15.4 points per game when she was only 16 years old. One season later, Salvadores signed for one year with
Rivas Ecópolis and debuted in
Liga Femenina. She averaged 14.6 points per game.
Duke Blue Devils
In the summer of 2015, Salvadores left Spain to play in the
NCAA Division I
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with the
Duke Blue Devils
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during the
2015–16 season.
Perfumerías Avenida
On 27 April 2016,
Perfumerías Avenida announced an agreement with Salvadores for the next three seasons.
At the end of the first season, she decided to move to Hungarian team
UNIQA Sopron
Sopron Basket
In her first season in
Hungary
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, Salvadores reached the Final Four of the
2017–18 EuroLeague Women, finishing as runner-up. She won the 2018
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EuroLeague statistics
International career
Salvadores played with all the youth categories of the
Spanish women's national team.
On 6 July 2014, she scored 40 points against
United States
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in the final game of the
2014 Under-17 World Championship but finally Spain lost by 75–77.
References
External links
Profile at FIBAProfile at Spanish Basketball Federation
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1997 births
Living people
Duke Blue Devils women's basketball players
Guards (basketball)
Los Angeles Sparks draft picks
Spanish expatriate basketball people in the United States
Spanish women's basketball players
Spanish women's 3x3 basketball players
Sportspeople from Oviedo