By Lewis Gordon In the summer of 2001, Ecuador found itself gripped by soccer fever ... along on a country-consuming wave of hope as the men’s national team sought to qualify for the World ...

Ecuadorian soccer player Jackson Rodríguez's wife and 5-year-old child were kidnapped early Wednesday, police reported, when men broke into ... the wave of violence. Ecuador is home to around ...

The wife and young son of Afro-Ecuadorian professional soccer player ... under his bed as armed men abducted his family, underscores the escalating insecurity gripping Ecuador.