Cuban volleyball player
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| Full name | Wilma Salas Rosell |
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| Nationality |  Cuba,  Azerbaijan |
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| Born | (1991-03-09) 9 March 1991 (age 32)
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
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| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
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| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
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| Spike | 321 cm (126 in) |
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| Block | 309 cm (122 in) |
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| Position | Wing Spiker / Opposite |
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| Current club |  Olympiacos S.F. Piraeus |
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| Number | 10 |
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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.
