Pacheco playing for New York Red Bulls against Houston Dynamo in May 2009.
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Former El Salvador soccer captain Alfredo Pacheco was shot dead at a gas station in Santa Ana in the northwest of the coutry, the Salvadoran attorney general’s office said Sunday. He was 33 years old.
The shooting occurred at 3:30 a.m. Sunday local time (4:30 a.m. ET). Two people who were with Pacheco were injured in the incident, the attorney general said.
Pacheco was a defender who had played 86 times for his country — more than any other Salvadorian player — and scored 6 goals
However, he was banned from the sport for life along with 13 other players in 2013 after being found to have taken bribes to lose games.