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 FC Barcelona and the Spain women's national team.

Early life

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

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mother.

Club career

Paralluelo is a UD San José product. She has played for

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and Villarreal in Spain. She is also a 2022 FIFA Puskás Award nominee.

International career

Paralluelo is eligible to play for Spain or

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. Representing the former, she won the

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, the

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and the

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, and made her senior debut on 11 November 2022, starting and scoring a hat-trick in a 7-0 friendly home win over Argentina.

Career Statistics

Club

International goals

Honours

Club

;FC Barcelona *

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International

;Spain U17 * UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship:

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* FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup:

;Spain U20 *

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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

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, 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

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, 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

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, where she won two gold medals in the 400m hurdles event with a time of 57.95.

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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 {{Spain-athletics-bio-stub