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 and career
Paralluelo was born in Zaragoza to a Spanish father and an Equatorial Guinean Fang mother, the latter having moved from Equatorial Guinea so that her son from a previous relationship with a severe congenital vision deficiency could receive better medical treatment in Spain. In December 2012, when the young man was 21 years old, he disappeared in Zaragoza and his body was found the following month. Apart from the aforementioned, she has two more brothers, José Jaime and Lorenzo, both footballers.
Career
Paralluelo is a product of UD San José in Zaragoza. She has played for Zaragoza CFF and Villarreal in Spain. She is also a 2022 FIFA Puskás Award nominee.
She signed for FC Barcelona at the end of the 2021/22 season, after her contract with Villareal ended.
International career
Paralluelo is cap-tied to Spain. She was also eligible to play for Equatorial Guinea.
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 the Spain squad list for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. During the quarter-final match against the Netherlands on 11 August, she 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.
On 15 August 2023, she scored a goal in Spain’s 2-1 victory over Sweden to take her team to its first senior World Cup final.
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 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.
Parents and family
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.
The athlete has Spain nationality, and she is of mixed ethnicity because her father is Spanish while her mother is from Equatorial Guinean.
Siblings
She has two brothers who go by the names Jose Jaime Paralluelo and Lorenzo Paralluelo.
Partner
Salma Paralluelo is currently single and not in an open relationship for now.
Husband
Is Salma Paralluelo married?: No, Salma Paralluelo is at the moment not yet married.
Children
Salma Paralluelo doesn’t have kids at the moment.
Net worth
Salma Paralluelo has an estimated net worth of around $1.5 million – $3 million.
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