MADRID, 29 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The young Villarreal soccer player Salma Paralluelo will not finally play the European Championship in England next July with the Spanish team due to an injury to the soleus of the left leg and her place will be occupied by the Real Madrid midfielder Teresa Abelleira, as confirmed this Wednesday the national team.
The 18-year-old from Zaragoza had been the great novelty of the list of 23 chosen by Jorge Vilda for the tournament despite the fact that she has not yet debuted with the Absolute. The striker was unable to play last Saturday’s friendly against Australia and was out of training for the past few days due to soleus pain.
In fact, the coach himself explained last Monday that the Aragonese stayed in the Nuevo Colombino stands “as a precaution” because she had edema in the outer calf, but that he hoped it would be resolved “in the next few days” and that the player would be “available very soon”.
“Salma is a player who has arrived well, who has entered with the ‘right foot’ and has given us signs of being a player of a very high level against great centre-backs. She is a player of the future, young and differential. She is a differential footballer, and that’s what we look at to summon her,” said the coach.
However, “seeing that the evolution of the injury was not as expected”, the medical services decided to carry out new diagnostic tests on Paralluelo that detected “a myofascial injury to the soleus muscle of the left leg” which permanently removed him from the EURO.
To replace the player from Zaragoza, Vilda has opted for a midfielder instead of another striker (Amaiur Sarriegi) and has chosen Madrid player Teresa Abelleira, who will make her debut in a major tournament with the national team.
