Grant Wahl, a longtime and respected soccer journalist who died suddenly Friday at the World Cup in Qatar, wasn’t sleeping well in the days leading up to his death, according to his agent.
and its hosting of the World Cup.
Eric Wahl said that his brother received death threats while in Qatar because of the rainbow shirt and his reporting on FIFA and Qatar’s government.Grant Wahl via REUTE Grant Wahl’s career spanned more than two decades at Sports Illustrated, where he rose to prominence as one of the magazine’s top writers. He also served as a soccer correspondent and analyst for CBS Sports and Fox Sports and authored the book, “The Beckham Experiment.”“My body finally broke down on me,” he wrote in a post on his newsletter.
Wahl’s wife, Céline R. Gounder, an American infectious disease physician who served on the COVID-19 Advisory Board transition team for President Joe Biden, that she was “so thankful for the support of my husband @GrantWahl’s soccer family & of so many friends who’ve reached out tonight. I’m in complete shock.”
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