Wahl was running his own soccer-focused Substack after working for Sports Illustrated for more than 20 years, where he covered soccer and college basketball. Wahl, who had also worked for Fox Sport…
LUSAIL, 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. He was 49.
“He wasn’t sleeping well, and I asked him if he tried melatonin or anything like,” Scanlan told the Times. “He said, ‘I just need to like relax for a bit.’”Wahl, who was running his own Substack after working for Sports Illustrated for more than 20 years, was covering his eighth World Cup. He wrote Monday that he had“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.
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 sex is criminalized in Qatar, a conservative Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula. Wahl said FIFA later apologized to him over the incident.
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