Salma Paralluelo, three World Cup winners’ medals and named best young player at the 2023 World Cup

Salma Paralluelo has now won three World Cups, which is no mean feat to say the least. The player from Zaragoza, who has been decisive in this tournament with her goals and her overlapping runs which have helped to create overloads, has come full circle in Sydney by winning the World Cup with the senior national women’s team. Adding to her success in the lower age categories. Before this current success, and while she was even younger than she is now (still only 19), she had already won the U-17 and U-20 World Cups.

In Uruguay 2018 she won the U-17 World Cup and repeated the achievement last summer in Costa Rica, this time with the U-20 team, scoring a brace in the final against Japan. Now, at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, and at just 20 years of age, she has also added a senior World Cup winners’ medal to her list of honours.

Her standout performances downunder, with important goals at crucial moments like the ones she scored against the Netherlands and Sweden (POTM in both matches), have seen her crowned as the best young player at the World Cup, yet another achievement for a player whose potential seems to have no limit.