Last morning, the U-20 team rose as world champion against the Japanese, the winners of the last edition and the favorites of the tournament (3-1). And, as happened in the semifinals, this victory was led by the great performance of Inma Gabarro and Salma Paralluelo. The Barça footballer scored a brace in the match to make it 3-0 in the first half hour of the match. Her fantastic performance would make her the MVP of the finals.
“It’s a sleep, I dont believe it. It is incredible to live it with all my colleagues, with the family that we have created. We have achieved the radvance of the generation that he couldn’t beat them”, she said enthusiastically after the success.
The news of Salma Paralluelo seems idyllic. Signing for the European runners-up, MVP in the semifinals and the final and a double against Japan. Although reality is not always what it seems. Recent times have not been easy for Salma Paralluelo. But this World Cup is football reward the most difficult year of his career.
serious injury
The cruciate ligament injury He took her away from the playing fields for a year, and distanced her almost definitively from the athletics. The soccer player, who was a member of the Villarreal when he broke in April 2021, he was unable to debut in the top flight until the following year. Although worse were the last few months as a sprinter.
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The already azulgrana could only participate in two competitions this past season and without achieving the results that he achieved before the break in the knee. Although in football this injury forces him to miss a tournament year, in a more physically demanding sport, it has been extended. To which, in addition, we must add that the fact that combine the two disciplines It did not allow her to carry out the training with the assiduity that her companions did.
Dream fulfilled
But the end of the season, however, was worth the suffering of the last year and changed the plans of the 18-year-old footballer, who definitively resigned from athletics and decided to focus solely on football. Despite having only played nine games for Villarreal this past season, he is one of the promises of today’s football. And the big clubs were interested in her for this course.
The Aragonese I do not doubt it. She signed for him Barca until 2026, a dream I had for four years. In 2018, at a time when neither women’s football, nor Barça, nor Salma had the current professionalism, the player already admitted that she would like to wear the Barça shirt.
“The best team in the world”
Barça’s interest in the Villarreal player and the call for the absolute At her young age, they generated an internal debate in the soccer player, who did not hesitate to focus her efforts on soccer. Leaving athletics was one of the conditions set by the club azulgrana for his signing.
Salma had already considered many times opting for one of the disciplines but had not had the courage until now. It was time to choose. “It has been difficult to give up a sport, but I had to take the step and it could not have been in a better place. It is the best team in the world”, declared Salma Paralluelo when the signing was made official.
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Champion of the U-17 World Cup with the Spanish team, she was one of the Jorge Vilda’s surprises for the European Championship from England. A call that also facilitated his decision. And although he finally could not participate in that European Championship Due to the soleus injury, he has been able to do it in the U-20 World Cup. Another unexpected call since the soccer player still did not have a medical discharge.
Paralluelo, however, recovered from the last injury and became one of the leaders of the national team. Salma has been one of the most decisive players on the team, in the semifinals she led the attack on the left wing becoming MVP of the match over Inma Gabarro, author of the two goals of the match. And in the final, he won the MVP again with a double that gave the team the World Cup. Soccer and Salma celebrate her election.