Mario Pineida, an ecuadoran football player, was fatally shot on Wednesday in Guayaquil, according to his team.
Numerous football players in Ecuador have been the targets of recent months of gang violence in Guayaquil, which is a hotspot for drug trafficking.
Pineida, 33, did not make the squad for the 2022 finals in Qatar, but he did play for Ecuador’s national team for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup qualifiers. In 2022, he also played for Fluminense.
His club, Barcelona SC, stated in a post on X that it regrets receiving a formal notification of the death of our player Mario Pineida following an attack against him in Guayaquil.
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The interior ministry confirmed Pineida’s death, citing the existence of a special police force in the case.
Two motorcycle riders opened fire on Pineida, his mother, and another woman, according to Primicias, according to the digital news outlet Primicias.
Three second-tier players from Ecuador’s second division were killed in September, one of whom allegedly had ties to sports betting. Local football player Bryan Angula was shot in the chest a month later.
Ecuador, one of Latin America’s safest nations, has grown into a major transit hub for top producers Colombia and Peru and international consumers.
Guayaquil, which had the highest murder rate in Ecuador, recorded 1, 900 murders between January and September, which has seen a rise in car bombings, shootings, and extortion.
Source: Channels TV
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