International Career
Salinas made 56 international appearances for Spain during a decade, scoring 23 goals. His debut was on 22 January 1986, as he scored in a 2–0 friendly win against the Soviet Union, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
He went on to represent Spain at three FIFA World Cups: 1986 (where he scored against Northern Ireland), 1990 (netting in the second-round loss against Yugoslavia) and 1994, as well as two UEFA European Football Championships, 1988 and 1996.
In the 1994 World Cup quarter-final against Italy, after he had found the net in a 2–2 draw against South Korea, Salinas missed the chance to put Spain into the last four: with 1–1 and less than ten minutes to go, he marred a fast-break, with only goalkeeper Gianluca Pagliuca to beat. Minutes after, Roberto Baggio sealed the 2–1 final result, as the Spaniard was ultimately more remembered for this miss rather than the massive amount of goals scored during an 18-year professional career.
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