Pulido at the World Cup in Brazil in June 2014.
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 the 25-year-old player was kidnapped as he left a party near Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, a state with high crime rates.
“We have information that he was intercepted by armed people and since then, his whereabouts are unknown,” Quintanilla said.
Quintanilla said that, under the governor’s orders, federal and state agencies are assisting in the investigation to locate the young star.