Diego Soñora

Diego Soñora

Personal information
Full name	Diego Luis Soñora
Date of birth	(1969-07-17) 17 July 1969
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Position(s)	Defender, Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988–1995	Boca Juniors	202	(3)
1996–1997	Dallas Burn	47	(3)
1998	MetroStars	30	(3)
1999	D.C. United	27	(1)
2000–2001	Deportes Concepción
2001	Tampa Bay Mutiny
2002	Cerro Porteño
?	Defensores de Belgrano
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 November 2011

Diego Luis Soñora (born 17 July 1969 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine former footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. He is the father of Joel Soñora.

Soñora, nicknamed "Chiche", spent a large part of his career with Argentine giants Boca Juniors where he won 5 titles between 1988 and 1995. Soñora played a total of 266 games for Boca in all competitions, scoring 5 goals.

In 1996 Soñora moved to Major League Soccer's Dallas Burn for the league's inaugural season, 1996. He would play two seasons for Dallas, before a switch to the MetroStars in 1998. A season later, he was sent to D.C. United and helped them to the 1999 MLS Cup. Soñora left MLS after that season, and played in Chile for Deportes Concepción before a short return to the US and Tampa Bay Mutiny in 2001. He then joined Cerro Porteño of Paraguay before returning to Argentina to play for lower league side Defensores de Belgrano, before retiring as a player.

In MLS, Sonora was an All-Star in his first three seasons in the league, and scored a total of seven goals and 21 assists.

Sonora's son Joel is a US youth international, who signed with Germany's VfB Stuttgart in 2016.

Honours

Season	Team	Title
1989	Boca Juniors	Recopa Sudamericana
1989	Boca Juniors	Supercopa Sudamericana
Apertura 1992	Boca Juniors	Argentine Primera División
1992	Boca Juniors	Supercopa Masters
1993	Boca Juniors	Copa de Oro
1999	D.C. United	MLS Cup