‘Only Pelé would have the audacity to try to lob the goalkeeper from his own half.’
For Atlas Obscura, Sam Lin-Sommer wrote about Oaxaca in Mexico and its love of basketball through La Copa Benito Juárez, an annual tournament that takes places in the mountains: At this tournament, there are no corporate sponsorships, no prize money. Just some 6,000 players and fans from the basketball-crazed mountains of the Sierra Juárez, trekking to the Zapotec hamlet of Guelatao de Juárez, driven by, as the tournament’s motto goes, el honor de competir.