Full name Diego Luis Sonora Name Diego Sonora Years Team Role Football player | 1988–1995 Boca Juniors 1996–1997 Dallas Burn | |
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Date of birth (1969-07-17) July 17, 1969 (age 46) Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Diego Luis Soñora (born July 17, 1969 in Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine football (soccer) defender and 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.