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Olienka Salinas

Olienka Salinas
Personal information
Full name Gloria Olienka Giovanna Salinas López[1]
Date of birth (1973-11-16) 16 November 1973 (age 51)
Place of birth Chimbote, Peru
Position(s) Forward, midfielder[1]
Team information
Current team
Sporting Cristal (technical staff)
Youth career
1981–1996 Unknown
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1997–2000 Sporting Cristal
2000–2005 Sport Boys (18)
2004–2009 USMP (futsal)
International career
1998–2003 Peru women's team 11 (7)
2004–2009 Peru women's futsal team 9 (9)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.

Early life and club career

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.

Club Country Years
Sporting Cristal (football)  Peru 1997-2000
Sport Boys (football)  Peru 2000-05
USMP (futsal)  Peru 2004-09

International career

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

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

Tournament Host city, country Result Played goals
1998 South American Women's Football Championship Mar del Plata, Argentina Third Place 6 5
2003 South American Women's Football Championship Lima, Perú Fourth place 5 2

Goals in the South American Women's Football Championship

Tournament Round team 1 Result team 2 Goals Ref.
1998 South American Women's Football Championship Group stage: Group A, matchday 3 Colombia Colombia 1–2 Peru Perú 1
Semifinals Argentina Argentina 1–1 (pen: 4-3) Peru Perú 1
Third place match Perú Peru 3–3 (pen: 5-4) Ecuador Ecuador 3
2003 South American Women's Football Championship Group stage: Group A, matchday 1 Perú Peru 3–1 Bolivia Bolivia 2 [11]

Participations in the South American Women's Futsal Championship

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

Tournament Host city, country Result Played goals
2005 South American Women's Futsal Championship Barueri, Brazil Group stage 3 7
2007 South American Women's Futsal Championship Guayaquil, Ecuador Group stage 3 2
2009 South American Women's Futsal Championship Campinas, Brazil Fourth place 3 0

Managerial career

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

Player

National championships

Championship Country Club Year
Peruvian women's football championship  Peru Sporting Cristal (football) 1998
Peruvian women's football championship  Peru Sporting Cristal (football) 1999
Peruvian women's football championship  Peru Sporting Cristal (football) 2000
Peruvian Metropolitan Women's Championship  Peru USMP (futsal) 2006

International championships

Championship Club Played Goals
2000 Sudamerican club women's football championship Sporting Cristal (football) 6 12

Manager

National championships

Championship Country Club Year
Peruvian Metropolitan Women's Championship (opening)  Peru Universidad Ricardo Palma 2010[13]

Personal life

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

References

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