Last Updated on 12/10/2022 by てんしょく飯
Grant Wahl, 48, an American sports reporter, died during the quarterfinal match of the 2022 World Cup soccer tournament in Qatar on December 9, his wife and the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) announced. Wahl had made headlines last month when he was temporarily detained for wearing a rainbow-colored shirt during a U.S. match.
He was covering the match between the Netherlands and Argentina that day.
Wall, who helped establish the popularity of soccer in the United States through his decades of lively reporting for Sports Illustrated, is now a reporter for CBS Sports, covering the Netherlands’ match against Argentina at Doha’s Lusail Stadium. He was covering the match between the Netherlands and Argentina that day at Doha’s Lusail Stadium.
According to NPR, a public radio station in the U.S., Wall collapsed in the press box toward the end of the game, and after paramedics performed CPR on the spot, he was placed on a stretcher and transported to the hospital. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that he appeared to have suffered a heart attack.
In a written comment, USSF said, “Grant made soccer his life’s work. We are devastated that he and his wonderful writings are no longer with us,” and that “the entire U.S. soccer family is devastated” by Wall’s death.
Wall’s wife, Celine Gounder, also known as an epidemiologist and an expert on diseases such as novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), posted on Twitter (Twitter) that she was “in complete shock.
In Qatar, where same-sex marriage is illegal, Wall was detained by security guards last month while wearing a rainbow-colored shirt in support of LGBTQ and other sexual minority rights at the first Group B match between the United States and Wales on March 21.
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