Score goals and burn the running tracks.
At 15 he was told that he had to choose between the two sports.
He refused.
Today, at 16, he has already won a European and a soccer World Cup with the lower categories of the Spanish team.
And the records keep falling every time he runs the 400 meters.
When Salma Celeste Paralluelo arrives at the studio, the photographer gives her two huge
hula hoops.
He tells him to hold one vertically over his forehead. The other, with the tip of the index. He also asks her to turn her head, to look at the camera, to smile. Everything at once. A game of impossible balances that could well be a metaphor for his life. Because Paralluelo has been juggling for years to be able to combine his two passions: soccer and athletics. And if it is already difficult to stand out in one sport, this 16-year-old young woman from Zaragoza has done so in both. With 15 she was crowned as one of the best under-18 footballers in the world. Also as one of the best athletes in her category in Spain. And she became one of the few runners who at that age managed to qualify for an absolute European. Today, about to turn 17, he kicks the ball for Villarreal and burns the courts at Playas de Castellón.