Tilting the field with her speed off the bench, 19-year-old Salma Paralluelo continues to take this World Cup by storm and powered Spain into its first final.
Paralluelo instantly made a nuisance of herself, creating chances, applying pressure, setting up a big opportunity thatThere is a lot more to her game than quickness, so it feels trite to focus so heavily on it. She's just so darn quick though that you can't avoid it, and it is such a game shifter.
The running part always came naturally to her — and she always wanted to do it. Her family put her in a famous Barcelona public running race, the Jean Bouin, from the age of 6 onward, and she won her age group five straight times.Alexi Lalas and Carli Lloyd recap Spain's semifinal victory Paralluelo was a European youth champion in the relay and the hurdles, a punishing distance that scorches the lungs and tests the resolve. She only gave it up after securing a club move to Barcelona, due to pressure from the team to narrow her focus.
It is no exaggeration to say she has changed the face of this World Cup. Spain was on the ropes against the Dutch, having become disjointed by late subs aimed at protecting the lead and left ill-equipped to adjust when the Netherlands did equalize.[Takeaways: Spain scores two late goals to top Sweden, make first World Cup final]
And again here, lighting up a semifinal that, in truth, was disappointing as a spectacle until it went wonderfully, riotously chaotic over the final 10 minutes. Some players are just magnetized to action, playing the game a certain way and with a particular mindset that something is guaranteed to happen when they are introduced.
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