Pulido is a forward for Greece’s Olympiacos football club and was part of Mexico’s 2014 World Cup team.
Ismael Quintanilla, state prosecutor in Tamaulipas, told reporters on Sunday that the 25-year-old player was kidnapped as he left a party near Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas.
The player’s brother, Armando, confirmed to website Medio Tiempo on Sunday that the soccer star had been kidnapped in the early morning after attending a party.
Pulido at the World Cup in Brazil in June 2014.