Diana González
{{Short description|Mexican footballer (1993–2019)}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Diana González
| image =
| caption =
| full_name = Diana Victoria González Barrera
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1993|09|10}}
| birth_place = Toluca, Mexico
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2019|11|1|1993|09|10}}
| death_place = Mexico City, Mexico
| currentclub =
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| position = Midfielder
| years1 = 2018–2019
| clubs1 = América
| caps1 = 18
| goals1 = 5
| nationalyears1 = 2010
| nationalteam1 = Mexico U17
| nationalcaps1 = 3
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| club-update = 21 February 2019
| ntupdate = 1 March 2019
}}
{{Family name hatnote|González|Barrera|lang=Spanish}}
Diana Victoria González Barrera (10 September 1993 – 1 November 2019){{cite web |url=https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/video/diana-gonzalez-america-mexico-fallecimiento-liga-femenil-mexicana-cruz-azul-deportes-cnne-pkg/ |title=La muerte de Diana González enluta al fútbol mexicano |accessdate=3 November 2019 |date=3 November 2019 |website=CNN |language=es}} was a Mexican footballer who played as a midfielder. She spent her entire club career with Club América of Liga MX Femenil. She had been a member of the Mexico women's national under-17 team.
Club career
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.marca.com/claro-mx/futbol/futbol-femenil/2019/11/02/5dbdd667e2704ecb688b45e3.html |title=¿Quién era Diana González, la jugadora del América que falleció el viernes? |accessdate=3 November 2019 |date=2 November 2019 |website=MARCA Claro México |language=Spanish}}
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.{{cite news |publisher=AS Mexico |title=Diana González es baja para América el resto del torneo |url=https://mexico.as.com/mexico/2019/02/19/futbol/1550546397_105602.html |language=es |date=18 February 2019 |access-date=11 April 2020}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.milenio.com/deportes/extra-cancha/hipoglucemia-enfermedad-murio-diana-gonzalez |title=Qué es la hipoglucemia, la enfermedad por la que murió Diana González |accessdate=2019-11-03 |website=www.milenio.com}}
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.
International career
González represented Mexico at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.{{FIFA player|321005}}
Death
González died on 1 November 2019 due to a decompensation in glucose levels after suffering hypoglycemia, she was 26 years old.{{cite web |url=https://www.tudn.mx/liga-mx-femenil/fallece-diana-gonzalez-jugadora-de-america |title=Fallece Diana González, jugadora de América |accessdate=2019-11-03 |website=TUDN |language=Spanish}} She was the first player who had been featured in the Liga MX Femenil to die.
Honours
;Club América
References
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External links
- {{Liga MX Femenil player|131978|Diana Victoria González Barrera}}
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Category:Mexican women's footballers
Category:Footballers from Toluca
Category:Liga MX Femenil players
Category:Club América (women) footballers
Category:Deaths from diabetes in Mexico