Diana González

Diana González
Personal information
Full name	Diana Victoria González Barrera
Date of birth	10 September 1993
Place of birth	Toluca, Mexico
Date of death	1 November 2019 (aged 26)
Place of death	Mexico City, Mexico
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
2018–2019	América
International career‡
2010	Mexico U17
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 February 2019; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 March 2019

Diana Victoria González Barrera (10 September 1993 – 1 November 2019)^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^[3]^[5]

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.^[5]

International career

González represented Mexico at the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.^[6]

Death

González died on 1 November 2019 due to a decompensation in glucose levels after suffering hypoglycemia, she was 26 years old.^[7] She was the first player who had been featured in the Liga MX Femenil to die.