Diego Soñora


Diego Luis Soñora is an Argentine former footballer who played as a defender or midfielder. He is the father of Alan Soñora and Joel Soñora.

Career

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.

Personal life

Sonora has two footballing sons in Alan and Joel. Alan started his senior career with Independiente, while Joel played for the United States at youth level and signed with Germany's VfB Stuttgart in 2016.

Honours

Club

;Boca Juniors
;Dallas Burn
;DC United