US EditionEcuador international Pineida dies in attack, says club
Mario Pineida, 33, was killed in a targeted attack amid rising gang violence in Guayaquil, where 1,900 murders were recorded in the first nine months of the year.
- In Guayaquil on Wednesday, Mario Pineida, 33, was shot dead in the Sauces 6 neighborhood, according to Col. Palacios.
- Guayaquil has become a hotspot for gang violence tied to drug trafficking, and Ecuador is expected to have more than 9,000 homicides in recent months, according to the Ecuadorian Observatory of Organized Crime.
- Two suspects riding motorcycles opened fire inside a butcher shop, killing an unidentified second victim and wounding Pineida's mother, who was treated at the scene.
- Ecuador's Interior Ministry confirmed Pineida's death, assigned a special police unit, and local police investigators are probing the case with no arrests reported, while Barcelona Sporting Club mourns deeply.
- Other footballers have been targeted in recent months, showing a troubling pattern, including Ecuador international Mario Pineida, who played in the 2018 and 2022 World Cups and had spells with Fluminense and Barcelona SC.
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The two gunmen opened fire on Mario Pineda and his wife, while the footballer's mother was also injured by their gunfire.
In broad daylight, two armed motorcyclists shot and killed national soccer player Mario Pineida and his girlfriend in the streets of Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil. The athlete's mother was also shot in the head, but fortunately only superficially, so she has already been released from the hospital. According to the police, it was not a street robbery, but a targeted liquidation. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Barcelona SC (@bar…
By Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español. The death of another soccer player has shocked Ecuador amid a serious crisis of violence and escalating organized crime in the South American country. Mario Pineida, 33, a player for Barcelona Sporting Club, the team with the largest fan base in the country, died after being shot Wednesday afternoon in the Samanes 4 area, north of Guayaquil, while he was at a butcher shop. Security camera footage shows two…
The player was shot by two armed men along with a woman who was identified as Guisella Fernández. SENSIBLE IMAGES
Mario Pineida, an Ecuadorian footballer from Barcelona Sporting Club and a former national footballer, was the victim of an armed attack in Guayaquil, one of the cities most affected by the violence in Ecuador. The incident occurred in broad daylight in a commercial venue. At least four footballers have been the victims of armed attacks so far this year in Ecuador. In September Maicol Valencia and Leandro Yépez —from Exapromo Costa — and Jonatha…
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