Diego Soñora
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Diego Luis Soñora is a former Argentine
Argentina
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 football (soccer)
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 defender and midfielder.

Soñora spent a large part of his career with Argentine giants Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

 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
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's Dallas Burn
FC Dallas
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 for the league's inaugural season, 1996. He would play two seasons for Dallas, before a switch to the MetroStars
Metrostars
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 in 1998. A season later, he was sent to D.C. United
D.C. United
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 and helped them to the 1999 MLS Cup
MLS Cup
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. Soñora left MLS after that season, and played in Chile
Chile
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 for Deportes Concepción
Club de Deportes Concepción
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 before a short return to the US and Tampa Bay Mutiny
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 in 2001. He then joined Cerro Porteño
Cerro Porteño
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 of Paraguay
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 before returning to Argentina to play for lower league side Defensores de Belgrano
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, 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.

Titles

Season Team Title
1989   Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

Recopa Sudamericana
Recopa Sudamericana
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1989   Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

Supercopa Sudamericana
Supercopa Sudamericana
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Apertura 1992   Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

Primera División Argentina
Primera División Argentina
The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...

1992   Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

Supercopa Masters
Supercopa Masters
The Supercopa Masters, also known as Copa Master de Supercopa, was a football tournament for clubs that had previously won the Supercopa Sudamericana. It was only played in 1992 and 1995.-1992 Supercopa Masters:...

1993   Boca Juniors
Boca Juniors
Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

Copa de Oro
Copa Oro
The Copa de Oro , or Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz, was a football club competition contested annually by the winners of the Copa Libertadores de América, the Supercopa Sudamericana, the Copa CONMEBOL, and the Supercopa Masters...

1999   D.C. United
D.C. United
D.C. United is an American professional soccer club based in Washington, D.C. which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, having competed in the league since its inception, in 1996.Over the...

MLS Cup
MLS Cup
The MLS Cup is the championship match of Major League Soccer, the highest tier of professional soccer in the United States and Canada. As the final match of the MLS Cup playoffs, the winner is crowned the season champion in the same manner as other North American sports leagues...


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