Soccer writer Grant Wahl dies at World Cup match in Qatar
Grant Wahl, one of the most well-known soccer writers in the United States, died early Saturday while covering the World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands.
U.S. media seated near him said Wahl fell back in his seat in the media tribune at Lusail Iconic Stadium during extra time and reporters adjacent to him called for assistance. Emergency services workers responded very quickly, the reporters said, and the reporters later were told that Wahl had died.
Wahl tweeted on Wednesday that he had celebrated his birthday that day. American reporters who knew Wahl said he was 49.
Wahl was covering his eighth World Cup. He wrote Monday on his website that he had visited a medical clinic while in Qatar.
“My body finally broke down on me. Three weeks of little sleep, high stress and lots of work can do that to you,” Wahl wrote. “What had been a cold over the last 10 days turned into something more severe on the night of the USA-Netherlands game, and I could feel my upper chest take on a new level of pressure and discomfort.”
Wahl wrote that he tested negative for COVID-19 and sought treatment for his symptoms.
“I went into the medical clinic at the main media center today, and they said I probably have bronchitis. They gave me a course of antibiotics and some heavy-duty cough syrup, and I’m already feeling a bit better just a few hours later. But still: No bueno,” he wrote.
During the World Cup, Wahl drew international attention after saying he was briefly stopped from attending the U.S. match against Wales on Nov. 21 over wearing a rainbow-colored T-shirt. Rainbow-colored armbands, shirts and other items have been a focus of attention during the tournament in part over Qatar’s stance on LGBTQ rights. Gay and lesbian s*x is criminalized in Qatar, a conservative Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula. Wahl said FIFA later apologized to him over the incident.
Wahl wrote this week that he had been among 82 journ*lists honored by FIFA and the international sports press association AIPS for attending eight or more World Cups.
A 1996 graduate of Princeton, Wahl worked for Sports Illustrated from 1996 to 2021, known primarily for his coverage of soccer and college basketball. He then launched his own website.
Wahl also worked for Fox Sports from 2012-19.
He is survived by his wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, clinical associate professor of medicine at New York University School of Medicine, attending physician at Bellevue Hospital Center and CBS News medical news contributor.
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You do know soccer isn't really valued in the US, right?
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Only noodle-limbed, malnourished Eurangutangs care about this sport, because their inbred bodies can only weakly kick an air-inflated ball with their skinny white legs. Strong, muscular biracial Americans show their strength by smashing their virile bodies against each other and harkening back to the tribal combat of their forefathers with the sweaty, skin-slamming contact sport of AMERICAN BVLL FOOTBALL. Sexy Indian dudecucks, Dune Coons, Latinxoids, and E*ropeans can never and will never measure up, and will continue to blissfully bat around tennis balls with flat wooden paddles and limply kick balls around grassy fields.
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If you read this sneed out loud during an NFL game there would be three commercial breaks before you finished it.
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spread the word brother, the subhuman sport of soccer has been far too prominent lately. Inshallah the ""'World Cup"" will soon be replaced by the International Super Bowl.
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Will literally never happen cause no other populace in the world is buck broken enough to suffer through a 3 hour ad with sports breaks in between.
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England and mexico have been colonized many times by our dominant sport.
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we call it football but it's played with hands. what a country!
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this but unironically most of yall are fricked
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that means like 10 people in the whole country knew who he was.
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Nobody fricking cares about soccer in USA, this is a cute twink European thing. The only legitimate sport is full-body-contact American football. The fact that we even had journ*lists there at all is a stain on our national pride.
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And still, no one knew his name until he died
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Dude should have been vaccinated its on him
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Did anyone inform him that freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences?
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Qatar is a private country. If you act like an butthole, they can terminate your life. If you don't like it, go elsewhere.
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I miss him so much
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Jamaica we got a skiing team
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The United States about to find some oil in Qatar.
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That would be based though, so it won’t happen
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Yeah I bet we will frick with a major oil supplier in the midst of a recession
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At least he died doing what he loved: having a heart attack in a despotic shithole watching a bunch of fairies prance around the pitch.
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He disrespected Allah’s will, so Allah took his life!
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Allah wanted him nearer to Him, and one day he will smile down upon you from Jannah as you spend all eternity being r*ped by the devil
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no I will defend him too - he is now a good journo
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It was either the vaxx or Qatar so either way he picked the best way to go.
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His glowie wife is now free from being his beard
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That's what happens when you don't wear a mask.
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def either covid or qatari anthrax
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Why do people insist on doing this stuff in shithole countries? Especially cuz I’m sure people like this dude are the first to lecture you on respecting other cultures
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It's like trying to enter Israel with some anti-israel mesage on your shirt. Frick that shit
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49 going on 90. Who just falls over. I think drugs were involved...Gay drugs...
Has anyone questioned the queer community in Qatar on what this dude was taking before her just randomly died?
Nah but seriously this news is super bad if they really merced him over a rainbow.
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Glowies, vaxx or natural causes?
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It's always glowies. Even when its not glowies, its still the glowies. Journo got hit with the heart attack gun.
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I mean RIP and all that
but really strange that this dudes brother is gay and yet he still willingly chose to go to Qatar
People are making assumptions because of his rainbow shirt stunt, but he said himself he was feeling ill.
Let it be a lesson to never travel to a third world country
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I like how he thinks that with no evidence whatsoever and the dude himself posting about how shit and sick he was feeling.
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Yeah I'm leaning towards medical malpractice. The whole LGBT thing was finally dying down and the Qataris decide NOW is the time for them to kill some US journ*list? So the wife is/was on Biden's covid19 response team or something. I wonder if she asked him to come back when his symptoms presented and persisted and if he refused.
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