Diego Viera

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Diego Viera
Personal information
Date of birth (1972-04-10) April 10, 1972 (age 51)
Place of birth Montevideo, Uruguay
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1990–1996 C.A. Cerro
1996 Tampa Bay Mutiny 17 (5)
1996Tampa Bay Cyclones (loan) (1)
1998–1999 Florida ThunderCats (indoor) 9 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Diego Viera (born April 10, 1972 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan football (soccer) forward who played professionally in Uruguay and Major League Soccer.

Viera began playing for C.A. Cerro in the Primera Division Uruguaya in 1990. On February 7, 1996, the Tampa Bay Mutiny selected Viera in the fifth round (forty-seventh overall) of the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft. [1] In 1998, he signed with the Florida ThunderCats in the National Professional Soccer League. [2]

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