Ecuador midfielder Bolaños shot in the arm

LDU Quito's Ecuador midfielder Luis Bolaños is in hospital after being shot in the arm but is out of danger, a director of the club said.

Local media reported that Bolaños was shot at twice in the parking lot of a shopping mall in what appeared to be an attempted robbery but his assailants had not been identified.

LDU director Esteban Pérez told a local radio station Bolaños, who helped LDU win the Libertadores Cup in 2008, was recovering in a hospital in northern Quito.

The 25-year-old, who has four caps, played for Santos and Internacional in Brazil in 2009, returning home on loan to Barcelona of Guayaquil in 2010 before rejoining LDU this year.

Paraguay forward Salvador Cabañas was shot in the head in a Mexico City bar in January 2010 in an alleged argument. He is recovering in Asunción.