Diego Luna
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48 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Diego Luna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm the kid, you know, that didn't really come from much. For me, it was always, you know, fighting for what I wanted, you know, needing to prove myself at any level and even on the soccer side.
What's going on? Thank you for having me. How are you guys doing?
Yeah, enjoying a little off day, but yeah, we're doing good.
Yeah. Northern. Yeah.
Yeah, so it was definitely a decision that, you know, my family, agents all had to be a part of, right? And I think for me, it was, you know, mainly my decision to understand that I was seeing kids getting, you know, brought into MLS teams and, you know, then just kind of, you know, floating around on the second teams, you know, not getting minutes and stuff like that.
And, you know, I was seeing this happen, you know, with my own eyes. So, I then, you know, thought about the opportunity to go, you know, prove myself and earn my spot and kind of rise up the ranks type of thing. And that's kind of been how my youth days were, kind of performing, then taking a leap. And I think that's what really made me, you know,
make my move to USL to get the opportunity to play and showcase myself there to make sure that I am good enough, I can showcase myself here and then move up the ranks from there.
Exactly. Yeah. So that's the thing, you know, with, with, you know, of course not putting any, any hate on, on anything, but like when you go to MLS next pro, you're going to be playing against, you know, Academy players or, or, you know, guys that, that, you know, aren't, aren't young, young kids.
But when you go into USL championship, that's, you know, that's a division of grown men, retired, you know, good pros. And, and, you know, if you're a young, a young player, like I was, Going into that environment, you're still competing against, you know, faster, stronger guys. And you're proving yourself and you still have something to prove there.
And once you perform there, you know, you can showcase yourself. And like I did, show everybody that you, you know, you're ready for the next level.
Yeah. I'm a kid that didn't really come from much. My family worked really hard to give me what they could and provide me with everything that I'm extremely grateful for. So I think for me, it was always fighting for what I wanted, needing to prove myself. And at any level, and even on the soccer side, I never played my age. I was always playing...
five years up two years up three years up you know it was never you know me playing against kids my age or my size it was always bigger faster stronger so for me it was just always gotta like I gotta do I gotta prove myself you know I'm not here just because You know, and, and, you know, taking it back, you know, my, my brother and my dad were my coaches.
They would put me, bring me up on the, on the, on the older teams and put me on the bench. He's like, you're not, you're not proving yourself. You're not, you know, you're not, you're not playing well. You're not doing what you need to be doing. So no matter if it was my family, they were going to sit me on the bench and be like, you're not doing good enough.
So I think it just came from the way I was raised and kind of the family that has given me everything and worked hard to put me where I'm at. And I just, you know, picked up on that to provide, to make sure that I'm doing the best to showcase myself. Yeah.
So in that game, you know, it was a big moment for me and always, you know, grateful to have the opportunity to represent, you know, the USA. So I break my nose middle of the game. I get pulled out to the side. They try to, you know, put it back in place right there on the sideline. And coach is looking at me like he's, like, are you ready to...
come off and i'm like no there's no way there's no way like there's no way i'm coming off in the 15th minute because this thing you know i can still run i could still see you know you're not stopping me right now and i think that was just the mentality of me because you know you don't get these opportunities you know all the time you got to take advantage of the opportunities you're given
And like I said, you got to showcase, you got to make a name for yourself. You got to, you know, provide and stuff. So, you know, in those moments, it's like you go, you think in your head, it's like, this is an opportunity where you can take the easy way and, you know, hop off and, you know, broke your nose. What a story, blah, blah, blah.
Or, you know, you're going to grab your chance and go for it. So I think for me, it was just saying like, there's no way I'm coming out of this game. And he was telling me, you know, that it's okay. You don't have to rush it. You know, it's preseason and stuff. And I was like, no, I'm going to, I'm going to, let me play my world cup.
Let me play, let me play until half. And, and from there we can make a decision. And, you know, he asked the doctors if that was okay. And then, you know, they said, yeah. And, you know, I was able to go back in there and, and, you know, maybe, maybe the best decision of my life, you know, to go back in there and, and, you know, get an assist right after. And, you know, from there, um,
Yeah, just showcase myself. And that was just, it's cool to me because it made a lot of headlines and stuff. But it was cool to me because that was just me. It wasn't like me trying to be anything. It was just exactly what my head wanted at that moment. And so that was cool to see and it made me feel good and stuff. But yeah.
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