Ángela Salvadores Álvarez (born 10 March 1997) is a Spanish

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player for Movistar Estdiantes. She played for

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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

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. With Segle XXI, she joined the

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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

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with the

during the 2015–16 season.

Perfumerías Avenida

On 27 April 2016,

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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

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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

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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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Salvadores, Angela 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 21st-century Spanish sportswomen