Meet Rebeca Landa, ESPN host and presenter who tasted flag football glory while making waves in media career
ESPN reporter Rebeca Landa has rapidly risen to prominence in the broadcasting world over the last decade.
Also a commentator for ESPN, Landa is also a flag football champion.
Originally from Mexico, Landa's love affair with football began when she was just eight years old after watching Remember The Titans.
"Then when I was about sixteen I discovered flag football," she told NFL.com.
Introduced to Tochito, as the sport is known in Mexico, by a friend, she admitted that: "As soon as I got there, there was a football and I was like 'OK, this is for me.'"
Landa eventually made the Mexican Women's National Flag Football team in 2018, going on to win a gold medal at The World Games four years later, as per her ESPN bio.
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"Getting that medal, knowing all the sacrifice that went into it, this was much bigger than a gold medal for us," she told NFL.com.
"It's a way for us to show the world and our country that women that work together can achieve gold."
Her love for the sport also was useful while studying at the University of Americas Puebla - from which she graduated in 2015.
Here she stumbled across a student program that produced TV shows and broadcast their football games.
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After attending a casting call, Landa was asked to join as an analyst, kick-starting her career.
"I never saw a woman on TV that I identified with that did what I wanted to do," she explained.
"So I was like, 'Okay, then if there's no one there, maybe I need to be that person.' So, that's where I got inspired and this thing that I liked, that I was good at, needed me also."
Landa went on to work for the Carolina Panthers and the Los Angeles Chargers before joining the Denver Broncos in 2020.
She has also worked for ESPN since 2017, covering the NFL, XFL, and tennis.
