Paraguayan soccer standout Salvador Cabanas is in serious condition after being shot in the head in the bathroom of a bar in Mexico, the victim of an apparent robbery, according to media reports.
Cabanas, a high-scoring striker -- or forward -- for Mexico soccer club America, was set to play for Paraguay in the World Cup in South Africa, ESPN reports.
The 29-year-old was shot "from a firearm with a frontal entry point and without exit," prosecutor Miguel Angel Mancera told the news channel Televisa.
He added that Cabanas was conscious and responding to questions when they brought him to a Mexico City hospital, where he was undergoing surgery. Mancera said that although Cabanas was conscious, he was having some sort of heart problem.
Cabanas was visiting the bar in the southern part of Mexico City with family and friends at the time of the assault.
In 2007, he was the Paraguayan Footballer of the Year.
