U.S. soccer journalist Grant Wahl dies while covering World Cup in Qatar

Grant Wahl, a longtime shot sportswriter, died Friday successful Qatar portion covering the World Cup.

NPR nationalist supervising exertion Russell Lewis tweeted that Wahl was covering the Argentina-Netherlands quarterfinal lucifer erstwhile helium died.

Multiple quality organizations reported Wahl collapsed successful the property tribune and was tended to by paramedics.

U.S. Soccer said successful its connection that the squad was "heartbroken" implicit Wahl's death.

"Fans of shot and journalism of the highest prime knew we could ever number connected Grant to present insightful and entertaining stories astir our game," the enactment said.

The origin of decease was not instantly available.

In a station Dec. 5 connected his personal website, Wahl said helium felt sick and that aesculapian unit on-site astatine the World Cup told him helium astir apt had bronchitis. He said helium was fixed antibiotics.

"My assemblage yet broke down connected me," helium wrote. "Three weeks of small sleep, precocious accent and tons of enactment tin bash that to you. What had been a acold implicit the past 10 days turned into thing much terrible connected the nighttime of the USA-Netherlands game, and I could consciousness my precocious thorax instrumentality connected a caller level of unit and discomfort."

His wife, Dr. Céline Gounder, tweeted late Friday that the quality came arsenic a "complete shock."

"I americium truthful thankful for the enactment of my husband @GrantWahl's shot household & of truthful galore friends who've reached retired tonight," she said.

Wahl was known for his enactment for Sports Illustrated and arsenic a commentator connected NPR. He wrote a well-received publication astir David Beckham's foray into the U.S. soccer, titled "The Beckham Experiment."

It was the archetypal New York Times Bestseller with shot arsenic the topic.

Sports Illustrated's apical editors said precocious Friday that helium started determination successful 1996 and near to prosecute autarkic projects successful 2020.

"We're shocked and devastated astatine the quality of Grant's passing," SI's co-editors successful chief, Ryan Hunt and Stephen Cannella, said. "We were arrogant to telephone him a workfellow and person for 2 decades. No writer successful the past of SI has been much passionate astir the athletics helium loved and the stories helium wanted to tell."

Wahl is from Mission, Kansas, and attended Princeton University arsenic an undergraduate.

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