"I'm good, I'm good, thank you," Alan Pulido said as he faced reporters alongside the governor of Mexico's Tamaulipas state, Egidio Torre Cantú, in a video posted on Twitter. Mexican international and Olympiacos striker Alan Pulido was kidnapped Saturday night in Ciudad Victoria , the capital of Tamaulipas state, and managed to call police and alert them to his location after a scuffle with one of his captors. Story highlights Soccer star Alan Pulido scuffles with captor, manages to call policePulido had been kidnapped Saturday night in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas state(CNN) A professional soccer player who was kidnapped in Mexico Saturday night has been rescued by authorities, according to state officials -- largely thanks to his own heroics. It was damaged when Pulido broke a pane of glass in a door during his escape, Quintanilla said during a phone interview with Mexican radio station Imagen. Pulido's right hand was bandaged in the video.
Source: CNN May 31, 2016 06:22 UTC