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Diana González
Mexican footballer (1993–2019)
Diana Victoria González Barrera (10 September 1993 – 1 November 2019)[2] was a Mexican footballer who played as a midfielder. Her last team was Club América of Liga MX Femenil. She had been a member of the Mexico women's national under-17 team.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Diana Victoria González Barrera | ||
| Date of birth | (1993-09-10)10 September 1993 | ||
| Place of birth | Toluca, Mexico | ||
| Date of death | 1 November 2019(2019-11-01) (aged 26) | ||
| Place of death | Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2019 | América | 18 | (5) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2010 | Mexico U17 | 3 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 February 2019 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 March 2019 | |||
González made her debut with Club América. At eight years old, she wished that in Mexico there was a professional soccer league for women equal to the manly one.
She debuted in the Liga MX Femenil on 23 July 2018 during a duel Club América vs Deportivo Toluca, being her first season in the 2018 Apertura Tournament (Mexico), in which she played seven games with a total of 526 minutes played. She scored four goals and received a yellow card.[3]
In her second season, she played eleven games with a total of 670 minutes of action, with a single goal scored and received two yellow cards. González suffered knee injury in a match against Pachuca, in which she scored her first goal of the tournament, leaving her unable to play for six months.[4]
She was in 2017 at the Telmex Telcel Championship, and in 2018 she was at the Telmex Telcel University Championship, where her team had won.[3][5]
After many rumors and expectations in her hometown on 22 September 2017, she was presented by the 2018 opening before the UANL Tigers, however she trained with America looking for a position for a foreigner position in the first team.[5]
González represented Mexico at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.[6]
González died on 1 November 2019 due to a decompensation in glucose levels after suffering hypoglycemia, she was 26 years old.[7] She was the first player who had been featured in the Liga MX Femenil to die.
- Club América
- "Diana Victoria González Barrera". Liga MX Femenil. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
- "La muerte de Diana González enluta al fútbol mexicano". CNN (in Spanish). 3 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- "¿Quién era Diana González, la jugadora del América que falleció el viernes?". MARCA Claro México (in Spanish). 2 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
- "Diana González es baja para América el resto del torneo" (in Spanish). AS Mexico. 18 February 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2020.
- "Qué es la hipoglucemia, la enfermedad por la que murió Diana González". www.milenio.com. Retrieved 2019-11-03.
- Diana González – FIFA competition record (archived)
- "Fallece Diana González, jugadora de América". TUDN (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-03.
- Diana Victoria González Barrera at Liga MX Femenil (archive) (in Spanish)
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