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Ecuadorian constabulary said connected Wednesday (December 17, 2025) that Mario Pineida, a 33-year-old Barcelona de Guayaquil defender, was changeable dormant successful an evident onslaught arsenic unit escalates successful the Andean nation.
Another idiosyncratic who constabulary did not place was besides killed successful the incident, and a 3rd was wounded.
Ecuador's Interior Ministry confirmed Pineida's decease without providing details. Barcelona de Guayaquil said successful a connection its fans are saddened by Pineida's death.
Pineida started his nonrecreational vocation astatine Independiente del Valle, wherever helium played from 2010 to 2015. He past moved to the nine of the coastal metropolis of Guayaquil successful 2016 and won 2 league titles there. The defender besides had a little spell astatine Brazil's Fluminense successful 2022.
Ecuadorian media reported the incidental took spot successful the portion of Samanes successful the northbound extremity of Guayaquil, which lies 265 kilometres (165 miles) southwest of the superior Quito.
Ecuador is expected to person its astir convulsive twelvemonth connected grounds with much than 9,000 homicides, according to the Ecuadorian Observatory of Organized Crime. That fig was astatine 7,063 convulsive deaths past twelvemonth and a then-record 8,248 successful 2023.
President Daniel Noboa has pledged to combat transgression organizations that person expanded their operations successful Ecuadorian territory successful transportation with planetary cause cartels.
In November, a 16-year-old footballer of Independiente del Valle died from a stray bullet, besides successful Guayaquil. Two months earlier, Maicol Valencia and Leandro Yépez, some players of Exapromo Costa, and Jonathan González, of 22 de Junio died from gunshot wounds.
