Diana Rosario Ordóñez Torres (born 26 September 2001) is a professional

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who plays as a forward for

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club

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. Born in the United States, she represents

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internationally. Ordóñez played college soccer for the

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, being named first-team All-American in 2021. She was drafted sixth overall by the

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in the

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and broke the league's rookie scoring record in her first season.

Early life

Ordóñez was born in

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, United States, to an Ecuadorian father and an American mother of Mexican descent. She was the youngest of five children. While still a small child, the family moved to

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, a suburb of

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. She played soccer for the FC Dallas youth team from 2010 to 2019, winning the Elite Clubs National League U-16 championship in 2017. Ordóñez played for Prosper High School, where she was named the Gatorade Texas Girls Soccer Player of the Year in 2017. Ordóñez initially committed to play college soccer at

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, but was urged instead to play at the

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by a friend, soccer player Taryn Torres. She finished high school a semester early and enrolled at Virginia in January 2019, barely 17 years old. During her Virginia career (2019–2021) she scored 45 goals, tied for third most all time at the university, although she only played three years of her four-year eligibility. In 2021 she was a first-team All-American and a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy.

Club career

On 18 December 2021, the

selected Ordóñez sixth overall in the 2022 National Women's Soccer League Draft. Ordóñez made her first appearance for the Courage in the 2022 NWSL Challenge Cup on 19 March and scored her first goal on 4 May. On 13 August, Ordóñez eighth goal broke the NWSL record for goals scored in a rookie season. She came second in voting for

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. Following the 2022 season, on January 12, 2023, Ordóñez was traded to the

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along with a third-round 2023 NWSL Draft pick for a first-round pick and $100,000 in allocation funds. On 30 May 2025, the Houston Dash announced that they had transferred Ordóñez to

for an undisclosed fee.

International career

Ordóñez made her senior debut for Mexico women's national team on 9 April 2022. Ordóñez was selected to represent Mexico at the

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held in

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, where the Mexican squad went undefeated to win the gold medal for the first time in their history at the Pan American Games, defeating

1–0.

Career statistics

International goals

References

External links

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North Carolina Courage profile

Virginia profile
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