Ecuadorian soccer under attack from organized crime: Five players murdered in 2025

Ecuadorian police confirmed the arrest of two people linked to the murder of Mario Pineida, the Barcelona de Guayaquil soccer player who, on the afternoon of December 17, became another victim of the relentless violence in Guayaquil, the country’s most violent city. Pineida, who until then had been one of the most prominent stars of Ecuadorian soccer, was at a butcher’s shop in the Samanes neighborhood, in the north of the city. Just another neighborhood, one of those where daily life is intertwined with the constant threat of death.

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