Andrea Garcia Lopez, 71, nicknamed “Granny Jordan” by TikTok users, plays basketball during an exhibition game in San Esteban Atatlahuca, Oaxaca, Mexico August 3, 2022. REUTERS/Jorge Luis Plata
SAN ESTEBAN ATATLAHUCA, Mexico, Aug 4 (Reuters) – Mexico has a new basketball star: 71-year-old Andrea Garcia Lopez.
Nicknamed “Granny Jordan” by TikTok users, a video showing Lopez lighting up the court in her small remote town of San Esteban Atatlahuca in the southern state of Oaxaca has been viewed over 1 million times since it was uploaded by her grandson.
In the video, Lopez, a local artisan with her gray hair platted in two long braids and sporting a long skirt, fake out an opponent near the basket to make space for a shot which she expertly scores off the backboard.
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