{"id":592,"date":"2026-05-11T20:36:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:36:34","slug":"how-a-3400-year-old-ballgame-survives-in-mexico-against-all-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"How a 3,400-year-old ballgame survives in Mexico against all odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>LOS LLANITOS, M\u00e9xico<\/strong> | On a dirt field on Mexico\u2019s Pacific coast, five cousins between the ages of 8 and 13 strip down and kick off their shoes. Nearby, adults help them fasten the pre-Hispanic-style \u201cfajado,\u201d securing loincloths and leather belts that wrap around their hips.<\/p>\n<p>The Osuna children grab the rubber ball, all 3.2 kilograms of it \u2014 around 7 pounds or seven times heavier than a soccer ball \u2014 and begin playing. Only the hips may touch it, forcing players to leap through the air or dive low when it skims the ground.<\/p>\n<p>As Mexico prepares to co-host the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the nation is looking back 3,400 years to one of the oldest team sports: the ancient ballgame known as ulama, a ritual practice nearly erased during the Spanish conquest that survived only in the remote pockets of northwestern Mexico before its late 20th-century rebirth. Today, authorities and its modern players are leveraging the momentum of international soccer to shine a spotlight on the ancient sport once again.<\/p>\n<p>While players acknowledge that tourism fueled the sport\u2019s revival, many worry that projecting an \u201cexotic\u201d image undermines a tradition central to their identity.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe must rid the game of the notion that it is a living fossil,\u201d said Emilie Carre\u00f3n, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, and director of a project aimed at studying and practicing the sport.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly what the Osuna family is trying to do. After ulama player Aurelio Osuna died, his widow, Mar\u00eda Herrera, 53, continued his legacy, teaching the ballgame to their grandchildren in their small village in Sinaloa, 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) northwest of Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis seed will bear fruit someday,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A pre-Hispanic ritual<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Popol Vuh, the sacred Mayan book, the world was created from a ballgame, where light and darkness clashed to balance life and death and set the universe in motion.<\/p>\n<p>Long before the Maya, the Olmecs \u2014 the earliest known Mesoamerican civilization \u2014 practiced the sport; the recreation of this clash of opposing forces was common in various pre-Hispanic cultures. The evidence is in millennial rubber balls unearthed in Mexico and in nearly 2,000 ball courts found from Nicaragua to Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>The game, depicted in codices, stone carvings and sculptures, had many variations and meanings, from fertility or war ceremonies, to political acts and even sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p>While some players were beheaded \u2014 possibly the losers \u2014 Guatemalan archaeologist and anthropologist Carlos Navarrete explained this occurred only during specific periods and in certain regions. The physically demanding game was primarily a big social event, drawing crowds for fun and betting.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish conquistador Hern\u00e1n Cort\u00e9s was impressed by the spectacle presented by the Aztec emperor Moctezuma but the Spanish ultimately banned ulama and ordered the destruction of its courts, likely viewing the tradition as a form of resistance to Christianity. For the Catholic Church \u201cthe ball was the living devil,\u201d Carre\u00f3n said.<\/p>\n<p>The game \u2014 played by hitting the ball with the hip, the forearm or a mallet \u2014 survived only on the Mexican northern Pacific coast, where the colonial process led by Jesuit priests was less aggressive and ulama was accepted in Catholic festivities, said Manuel Aguilar Moreno, a professor of art history at California State University.<\/p>\n<p>On the opening day of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, spectators watched as burly men contorted their bodies in unexpected ways to keep the rubber ball moving for as long as possible. The exhibition sparked studies about the ballgame and how to preserve it in the following decades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The game\u2019s revival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Luis Aurelio Osuna, 30, Herrera\u2019s eldest son, began playing hip ulama after school, just as his father did decades ago in Los Llanitos, a ranch next to the port city of Mazatl\u00e1n. Now his three children also play.<\/p>\n<p>Osuna and his mother teach the children how to hit the ball and guide them through the complicated rules, which include a scoring system with points that are won and lost.<\/p>\n<p>They do it out of passion, but also out of pragmatism in a state where organized crime is pervasive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to find a way to keep them entertained with good things,\u201d said Osuna.<\/p>\n<p>Hip ulama teams have up to six players and the Osuna family sometimes participates in tournaments or exhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>Decades ago, matches were big events tied to religious feasts, sometimes stretching on for an entire week. But those days are gone, as interest waned and rubber balls became hard to get.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, filmmaker Roberto Roch\u00edn documented the work of perhaps the last rubber ball-maker in the mountains of Sinaloa. The artisan made them similar to the Olmecs, who discovered that mixing hot rubber sap with a plant created a strong, elastic and durable material. This civilization made some of the oldest balls of the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A spectacle sparking mixed feelings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the 1990s, staff from a resort in the Mexican Caribbean traveled across the country in search of Sinaloan families who could represent the ballgame as a tourist attraction in the Riviera Maya, where no one played it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pure spectacle: they paint their faces and put on feathered costumes,\u201d Herrera said. Yet, she acknowledges the value. \u201cThat\u2019s where the revival began.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ballgame began to spread and to be known outside Mexico. Osuna, with the family team his father had formed, ended up playing hip ulama in a Roman amphitheater in Italy. It attracted so much attention that they were hired for a deodorant commercial, he said.<\/p>\n<p>As the World Cup approaches, authorities and corporations are launching exhibitions in Mexico City and Guadalajara, and featuring ulama players in ad campaigns highlighting Mexican heritage \u2014 a move that has sparked mixed feelings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not circus monkeys,\u201d says \u00c1ngel Ortega, a 21-year-old ulama player from Mexico City who recently participated in a TV commercial alongside football players.<\/p>\n<p>Ilse Sil, a player and member of the UNAM project led by Carre\u00f3n, believes that institutional support will help to preserve ulama but officials need to promote the game in communities and schools to recruit more young players, as it remains a marginal sport with approximately 1,000 players mainly in M\u00e9xico and Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>In Los Llanitos, Herrera\u2019s grandchildren love playing. They don\u2019t care where \u2014 in the dirt field, in a court or even in the house corridor \u2014 but always with the precious inheritance: a handmade decades-old rubber ball from the mountains of Sinaloa. They say it cushions the blows better.<\/p>\n<p>Eight-year-old Kiki is the most enthusiastic. He says he is determined to keep practicing until he fulfills the dream of leading a team of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Follow AP\u2019s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/latin-america<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=586\">Tulsa Race Massacre reparations is soul-redeeming work for the US, Oklahoma civil rights lawyer says<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=588\">Man charged in White House correspondents\u2019 dinner attack pleads not guilty<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=590\">From Taylor Swift to the Oscars, 400-year-old \u2018Hamlet\u2019 flourishes in the age of TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS LLANITOS, M\u00e9xico | On a dirt field on Mexico\u2019s Pacific coast, five cousins between the ages of 8 and 13 strip down and kick off their shoes. 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