Salvador Cabanas Shot | Salvador Cabañas Balazo Video Foto.Salvador Cabañas Ortega (born August 5, 1980) is a Paraguayan football striker, who last played for Club América of the Primera División de México. A prolific and natural goalscorer, he is known for his array of skills on the field such as excellent heading, accurate shooting with either foot, receptions in tight spaces, and a combination of technique, power and positional sense. He scored in 218 games, fabulous 125 goals in the Primera División de México.

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International football player Salvador Cabanas has been shot in the head after visiting a bar in Mexico City, according to reports from Mexico. The incident happened at 5.30 PM local time.

Early years

Sanvador Cabañas started his career at Paraguayan club 12 de Octubre, where he was promoted to the first division by then coach Alicio Solalinde, scoring a hugely impressive 17 goals in his first season. He moved to a different team, Club Guaraní, where he had a brief stint before moving to Audax Italiano of Chile. In the 2003 Apertura tournament of the Chilean league Cabañas netted an impressive 18 goals and was the top goalscorer.

Afterwards, he joined Jaguares of Mexico from Audax Italiano before the Mexican 2003 Apertura tournament. That season, Cabañas went on to play in 18 games for the team, scoring five goals. He came into his own in the 2004 Clausura however, as he scored 15 goals in 20 games for the club. He would lead the club in goals again in the 2004 Apertura, with eight in 16 matches.

Following the Clausura 2006 season in which Cabañas won his first goalscoring crown in the Mexican League, he attracted the attention of Club América, one of the most important clubs in the country, and was signed by the Mexico City squad prior to the Apertura 2006 season.

Cabañas has become América's most prolific goalscorer for 2007, finishing up the first half of the year with an impressive 19 goals between Copa Libertadores 2007 (in which he became the top-scorer with 10 goals) and the Primera División de México. He started the second half of the year with a single goal in the North American SuperLiga, then scored 4 more goals in the Copa Sudamericana 2007, and has scored 9 more in the Primera División de México, bringing his year's total with the club to 33 goals. His top form in 2007 earned him the Paraguayan Footballer of the Year and South American Footballer of the Year awards.

For 2008, Cabañas has started where he left off in 2007. He has scored 3 goals in the InterLiga 2008, scored 8 in the Copa Libertadores 2008 (in which, for a consecutive second time, he became the top-scorer), and has scored 6 more goals in the Primera División de México. He started the second half of the year with 6 goals in the Primera División de México, bringing his year's total to 23 goals with the club.

Cabanas started 2009 by scoring his first goal in the InterLiga 2009 and scoring 13 more goals in the Primera División de México. He then finished the second half of the year with 12 goals in the Primera División de México. Taking his tally to 26 goals for the year. On January 18, against Santos Laguna, he scored two goals, taking his personal tally to 100 goals in the Primera División de México.

For 2010, Cabañas again has started the year scoring 4 goals in the InterLiga 2010.
Cabañas was shot in the head inside the "Bar Bar" night club in Mexico City early January 25th, 2010 morning. There are no exact causes of the attack towards Cabañas, but it is certain that he was concious on the way to the hospital. Cabañas received medical attention during the early hours of January 25th, 2010. Later on the day he was submited to a craniotomy but doctors decided that it was too risky to proceed and the bullet was not extracted. He remains critical but stable. According to his wife, he tried to react against a robbery, although this account is disputed by authorities.

Honors

Individual honors

• Top-scorer in the Chilean football league, Apertura 2003 with Audax Italiano
• Top-scorer in the Primera División de México, Clausura 2006 with Chiapas F.C.
• Top-scorer in the Copa Libertadores 2007, with Club America
• Paraguayan Footballer of the Year in 2007
• South American Footballer of the Year in 2007
• Top-scorer in the Copa Libertadores 2008, with Club America
• Winner of the "Balón de Oro" as the best striker in the Clausura 2008 tournament

Other honors

• Salvador finished 2007 as the second striker with most goals in the world.
• Chosen for the "Ideal Eleven" of South America in 2007 
• Salvador is the all-time top scorer of all Mexican teams in their history in the Copa Libertadores