Alfredo Pacheco shot dead in El Salvador

A former New York soccer star who was banned from the game for life for his involvement in match fixing has been shot dead in El Salvador, according to Daily mail.

Alfredo Pacheco, 33, was chatting with a group of friends chatting in a petrol station when an unknown assailant shot at the group various times, 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.

He leaves behind his wife and five children, who he lived with in the United States.