Story highlights Soccer star Alan Pulido scuffles with captor, manages to call police

Pulido 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.

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.

"After midnight last night there was a phone call to 066 from soccer player Alan Pulido and in a moment of carelessness by his captors in the place where he was, he was able to make a phone call asking for help, and giving (his) location where he was," state prosecutor Ismael Quintanilla said during a press conference.

Pulido's right hand was bandaged in the video. 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.

"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.

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