Wilma Salas Explained

Wilma Salas
Fullname:Wilma Salas Rosell
Nationality: Cuba, Azerbaijan
Birth Date:9 March 1991
Birth Place:Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Height:1.88 m
Weight:65 kg
Spike:321 cm
Block:309 cm
Position:Wing Spiker / Opposite
Currentclub: Olympiacos S.F. Piraeus
Currentnumber:10
Years1:2007-2012
Team1: Santiago de Cuba
Years2:2014–2015
Team2: Rabita Baku
Years3:2015–2016
Team3: Çanakkale Belediyespor
Years4:2016–2018
Team4: Halkbank Ankara
Years5:2018–2019
Team5: Cuneo Volley
Years6:2019
Team6: Petro Gazz Angels
Years7:2019–2021
Team7: KPS Chemik Police
Years8:2021–
Team8: Olympiacos S.F. Piraeus
Nationalyears:2010–
Nationalteam:Cuba
Medaltemplates-Expand:yes

Wilma Salas Rosell (born 9 March 1991) is a Cuban female volleyball player. She was part of the Cuba women's national volleyball team. She currently plays in Hellenic Volley League for Olympiacos Piraeus.

She participated at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan.[1], when she used to play with Santiago de Cuba.

Career

Wilma Salas' career started at the age of 16 in Cuban championship, playing for the local team of Santiago de Cuba, where she remained until 2012. After two years of inactivity, she returned to the field in the 2014-15 season in Azerbaijan Super League, when she signed her first professional contract with Rabitə Baku,[2] winning the championship. She also received the local sporting nationality, becoming also known as Wilma Aslihanova. In the following championship she moved to Turkey, where she defended the colors of Çanakkale, in Turkish League, also remaining there in the 2016-17 season, playing with the Halkbank Ankara shirt.

For the 2018-19 championship Wilma Salas played for Cuneo Volley,[3] in the Italian League. Then she moved to Philippines for the end of the season, where she played in the local championship with the Petro Gazz Angels.[4] The following season she moved to the Polish club of Chemik Police,[5] winning one Super Cup, two Polish Cups and two league titles, although she did not play most of the 2020-21 season due to a serious knee injury, which occurred in the initial part of the championship.[6]

In the 2021-22 season Salas returned to the field in Hellenic Volley League for Greek champions Olympiacos Piraeus.[7]

International career

In 2008 Wilma Salas made her debut in the Cuban national team, with which a year later she became the protagonist of the 2010 world championship qualifiers, gaining access to the world championship and being awarded as the best attacker and best server of the tournament. Later that year she won the bronze medal at the 2009 North American Championship, and in 2011 she won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. In 2012 she wore the national team shirt for the last time, winning a bronze medal again, this time in the Pan-American Cup.

Sporting achievements

National Team

Clubs

International competitions

National championships

National trophies

Individual awards

References

  1. Web site: Cuban volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship . www.fivb.org . 28 November 2021.
  2. Web site: Salas in Rabitə Baku . www.volleywood.net . 28 November 2021.
  3. Web site: Wilma Salas in Cuneo Volley . volleymob.com . 28 November 2021.
  4. Web site: Wilma Salas in Petro Gazz Angels . www.philstar.com . 28 November 2021.
  5. Web site: Wilma Salas in Chemik Police . www.philstar.com . 28 November 2021.
  6. Web site: Wilma Salas' serious injury . worldofvolley.com . 28 November 2021.
  7. Web site: Wilma Salas in Olympiacos Piraeus . www.olympiacossfp.gr . 28 November 2021.

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