{"id":42998,"date":"2025-12-19T00:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mario-pineida-ecuador-defender-killed-in-shooting-in-guayaquil\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T00:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T00:38:01","slug":"mario-pineida-ecuador-defender-killed-in-shooting-in-guayaquil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/mario-pineida-ecuador-defender-killed-in-shooting-in-guayaquil\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Pineida: Ecuador defender killed in shooting in Guayaquil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ecuador defender Mario Pineida has died at the age of 33 after being shot in Guayaquil.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Local media reported that Pineida was shot on Wednesday by two people on motorbikes who opened fire on him, his mother and another woman outside a shop in the north of the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ecuador&#8217;s interior ministry said it has sent a special police unit to investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guayaquil has become a hotspot for gang violence and drug trafficking, with 1,900 murders recorded between January and September &#8211; the highest in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three second-tier footballers were killed in September and a local player was wounded in a shooting in October.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwyvdrkd9j7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuador defender Mario Pineida has died at the age of 33 after being shot in Guayaquil. Local media reported that Pineida was shot on Wednesday by two people on motorbikes who opened fire on him, his mother and another woman outside a shop in the north of the city. Ecuador&#8217;s interior ministry said it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43000,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42998\/revisions\/43000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}