Salvador Martinho Rocha Nogueira Salvador better known as Salvador Salvador (born 29 July 2001 Samora Correia, Portugal) in is a Portuguese team handball and beach handball player. He plays for Sporting CP in his home country and the Portugal national team.
He started playing team handball in his hometown at NA Samora Correia at the age of 8.[1]
In 2014 he switched to the Sporting's youth team.[1] Here he won the Junior Championship in Portugal in 2017 and 2018. In the 2018/19 season he debuted in the Portuguese first league, Andebol 1.
In the 2019/20 season he was loaned out to league rivals Boa-Hora FC, where he scored 150 goals in 27 matches.[1]
Afterwards he returned to be a first team player at Sporting, where he won the Portuguese Cup in 2022, 2023 and 2024, the Portuguese Supercup in 2023, and the Portuguese League in 2024.
In 2025 he was part of the Portugal team that reached the semifinals of the World Championship for the first time in history. They lost the semifinals to Denmark and the third place playoff to France.[2]
References
- ^ a b c "Salvador Salvador" (in Portuguese). www.zerozero.pt. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ Orup Kristensen, Oliver (2 February 2025). "Sindssyg afslutning på dramatisk bronzekamp" [Insane finish to bronze match] (in Danish). TV2 Danmark. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
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