Olienka Salinas

Gloria Olienka Giovanna Salinas López (born 16 November 1973), known as Olienka Salinas, is a Peruvian former football and futsal player and current manager.[2] She is the Peruvian football and futsal team all-time-top-scorer with 7 and 9 goals respectively.[3][4] Since 2018 she has been part of the technical staff of the Sporting Cristal women's football team that participates in the Peruvian women's football championship.

Olienka Salinas
Personal information
Full nameGloria Olienka Giovanna Salinas López[1]
Date of birth (1973-11-16) 16 November 1973 (age 50)
Place of birthChimbote, Peru
Position(s)Forward, midfielder[1]
Team information
Current team
Sporting Cristal (technical staff)
Youth career
1981–1996Unknown
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1997–2000Sporting Cristal
2000–2005Sport Boys(18)
2004–2009USMP (futsal)
International career
1998–2003Peru women's team11(7)
2004–2009Peru women's futsal team9(9)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing Peru
South American Women's Football Championship
Third place1998 Mar del Plata
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Early life and club career

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Olienka started playing soccer when she was 5 years-old in her hometown, Chimbote. In January 1997 she traveled to Lima to do tests at Sporting Cristal and eventually was selected. She played for Sporting Cristal until 2000 and during this period she won the National Championship three times (1998, 1999, 2000).[5][6] Also she won and was the top scorer of the 2000 Sudamerican club women's football championship, an «experimental» tournament was organized by Peruvian Football Federation and can be considered as a precedent for the Copa Libertadores Femenina (Female Copa Libertadores).

The Sporting Cristal women's football team disappeared and Olienka continued her career in Sport Boys where she became top scorer of the 2002 National Championship. Olienka retired from football in 2005.

Since 2004 until 2009, Olienka played for Universidad San Martín female futsal team and competed in the Peruvian Metropolitan Women's Championship. She won the 2006 championship and was the top scorer in both 2006 and 2007.

ClubCountryYears
Sporting Cristal (football)  Peru1997-2000
Sport Boys (football)  Peru2000-05
USMP (futsal)  Peru2004-09

International career

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Olienka was part of the Peru women's national football team that played the 1998 South American Women's Football Championship and finished third,[7] currently its best performance. Olienka scored 5 goals that time and 2 more in the 2003 South American Women's Football Championship.[8]

Olianka also played for the Perú women's national futsal team. She scored 7 goals in the 2005 South American Women's Futsal Championship, 2 goals in the 2007 South American Women's Futsal Championship, and participated in the 2009 South American Women's Futsal Championship where she didn't score.[9][10]

Participations in the South American Women's Football Championship

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Olienka has participated in two South American Women's Football Championship.

TournamentHost city, countryResultPlayedgoals
1998 South American Women's Football ChampionshipMar del Plata, ArgentinaThird Place65
2003 South American Women's Football ChampionshipLima, PerúFourth place52

Goals in the South American Women's Football Championship

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TournamentRoundteam 1Resultteam 2GoalsRef.
1998 South American Women's Football ChampionshipGroup stage: Group A, matchday 3Colombia 1–2 Perú1
SemifinalsArgentina 1–1 (pen: 4-3) Perú1
Third place matchPerú 3–3 (pen: 5-4) Ecuador3
2003 South American Women's Football ChampionshipGroup stage: Group A, matchday 1Perú 3–1 Bolivia2[11]

Participations in the South American Women's Futsal Championship

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Olienka has participated in two South American Women's Futsal Championship.

TournamentHost city, countryResultPlayedgoals
2005 South American Women's Futsal ChampionshipBarueri, BrazilGroup stage37
2007 South American Women's Futsal ChampionshipGuayaquil, EcuadorGroup stage32
2009 South American Women's Futsal ChampionshipCampinas, BrazilFourth place30

Managerial career

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Olienka founded the Olienka Salinas Women's Football School and started managing. Later, she took over Fuerza Cristal, a female football club that played Peruvian women's football championship but without Sporting Cristal support. In 2018, Cristal refounded its women's football section based in the Fuerza Cristal team and Olienka became a member of the technical staff.

Since 2017, Olienka is part of the Peru women's national football team technical staff in all of its categories: absolute, U-20, U-17, U-15, futsal, etc.[12]

Olienka is also the manager of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt School female football team and manager of the men and women Universidad Ricardo Palma futsal team.

Honours and achievements

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Player

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National championships

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ChampionshipCountryClubYear
Peruvian women's football championship  PeruSporting Cristal (football)1998
Peruvian women's football championship  PeruSporting Cristal (football)1999
Peruvian women's football championship  PeruSporting Cristal (football)2000
Peruvian Metropolitan Women's Championship  PeruUSMP (futsal)2006

International championships

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ChampionshipClubPlayedGoals
2000 Sudamerican club women's football championshipSporting Cristal (football)612

Manager

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National championships

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ChampionshipCountryClubYear
Peruvian Metropolitan Women's Championship (opening)  PeruUniversidad Ricardo Palma2010[13]

Personal life

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Olienka is a Systems engineer graduated from Universidad de San Martín de Porres and also studied Physical Education at the National University of San Marcos. She also has studies in Sports Management and owns the Olienka Salinas Women's Football School.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "[13/04/2003] Perú-Chile | 2:1". Partidos de la Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ Olienka Salinas at Soccerway. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Copa Perú Femenina: "Creo que sí hay futuro en el fútbol femenino"". El Bocón - Deportes (in Spanish). 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  4. ^ Combe, Eduardo (2018-04-05). "Selección Peruana: todo lo que debes saber de la Copa América Femenina 2018". depor.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  5. ^ Entrevista a Olienka Salinas, retrieved 2019-07-29
  6. ^ LA GOLEADORA CELESTE: OLIENKA SALINAS.//JORGE JAIMES-EL PORTAL CELESTE, retrieved 2019-07-30
  7. ^ "Copa Perú Femenina: "Creo que sí hay futuro en el fútbol femenino"". El Bocón - Deportes (in Spanish). 2018-08-14. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  8. ^ Combe, Eduardo (2018-04-05). "Selección Peruana: todo lo que debes saber de la Copa América Femenina 2018". depor.pe (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  9. ^ "Olienka Salinas López". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  10. ^ Olienka Salinas Futsal Femenino - Perú, retrieved 2019-07-30
  11. ^ "Sudamericano Femenino - 2003". CONMEBOL (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 20 June 2004. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  12. ^ Femenino, Fútbol (2017-02-06). "La selección de futsal realizó su primer partido de entrenamiento". Medium. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
  13. ^ Ricardo Palma Campeón Femenino en Futsal, retrieved 2019-07-30
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