Former New York Red Bulls player Alfredo Pacheco who was banned from the game for life for his involvement in match fixing has been shot dead in El Salvador.
Pacheco, 33, was chatting with a group of friends in a petrol station when an unknown shooter opened fire on the group, authorities said.
Pacheco - who spent a season at New York Red Bulls and is the most-capped Salvadorian soccer player in history - was murdered, the country's attorney general's office said.
Pacheco was one of two people taken to a nearby hospital in the city of Santa Ana, west of the capital San Salvador, before he was pronounced dead.
'The attorney general's office in Santa Ana processed the crime scene of the murder of Alfredo Pacheco at 3.30am in a petrol station,' it said.
Pacheco was a defender who played for the Salvadoran clubs Club Deportivo FAS and Asociacion Deportiva Isidro Metapan.
He spent a season on loan at the Red Bulls in 2009, playing for the team 14 times in one of their worst ever years.
Pacheco was banned from the sport by the Salvadoran football federation in 2013 when it was found he had been involved in match fixing.
He is survived by his wife and five children, who he lived with in the United States.
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