Diana Victoria González Barrera (10 September 1993 – 1 November 2019) was a Mexican

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who played as a

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. Her last team was

Club América Club de Fútbol América S.A. de C.V., commonly known as Club América or simply América, is a professional football club based in Mexico City. Nicknamed ''Las Águilas'' (The Eagles), it competes in Liga MX, the top tier of Mexican football ...

Liga MX Femenil The Liga MX Femenil, officially known as the Liga BBVA MX Femenil for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in Mexico. Supervised by the Mexican Football Federation, this professional league has 18 teams, each coincidi ...

. She had been a member of the Mexico women's national under-17 team.

Career

González made her debut with

. 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

on 23 July 2018 during a duel Club América vs

Deportivo Toluca Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club S.A. de C.V. (), commonly known as Club Deportivo Toluca, is a Mexican football club, playing in the Primera División de México, the top-flight of Mexican football. Toluca's stadium, Estadio Nemesio Díez Riega ...

, 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. 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

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in a match against Pachuca, in which she scored her first goal of the tournament, leaving her unable to play for six months. 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. 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

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Death

González died on 1 November 2019 due to a decompensation in glucose levels after suffering

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, she was 26 years old. She was the first player who had been featured in the Liga MX Femenil to die.

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* 1993 births 2019 deaths Mexican women's footballers Footballers from the State of Mexico People from Toluca Liga MX Femenil players Club América (women) footballers Deaths from diabetes Women's association football midfielders Mexican footballers {{Mexico-women-footy-bio-stub