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Grant Wahl
Grant Wahl (December 2, 1973 – December 10, 2022) was an American sports journalist and soccer analyst for CBS Sports, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a correspondent for Fox Sports, based in New York City. He was also the author of the book The Beckham Experiment (2009). Wahl covered the Battle of Lusail match in Qatar 2022, when he collapsed during extra time and died a few hours later.
His Sports Illustrated career mainly focused on college basketball and soccer in the United States. Wahl ran for the FIFA presidency in 2011, but withdrew his campaign after failing to receive an endorsement from a football association. He left Sports Illustrated in 2020 and founded his own podcast and newsletter.
Wahl died from an aortic aneurysm on December 10, 2022, while in Lusail, Qatar as he was covering the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Wahl was born on December 2, 1973, in Mission, Kansas; he had one older brother, Eric. He was a fan of the Kansas City Comets, a local indoor soccer team. Wahl graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School and was an Eagle Scout. He went on to study at Princeton University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Politics in 1996.
During his first year at Princeton University, Wahl was a reporter for the Daily Princetonian and covered the Princeton Tigers men's soccer team, then coached by Bob Bradley, who would go on to manage Major League Soccer teams and the United States national team. Bradley provided Wahl with an opportunity to study abroad in Argentina, spending time with Boca Juniors, before returning to the United States for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Wahl cited his experiences with Bradley as having been a catalyst for his love of the sport. His senior thesis at Princeton University investigated the relationship between Argentinean clubs, democratic practices, and civil society.
In 1996, Wahl began his career working with the Miami Herald as an intern and later declined an offer to become a staff writer there. From there, he joined Sports Illustrated in November 1996 as a fact-checker and later began covering college basketball as well as soccer. During his career, Wahl reported on 12 NCAA basketball tournaments, eight FIFA men's World Cups, four FIFA Women's World Cups, and five Olympic Games. He was one of three Sports Illustrated journalists to cover the 1998 FIFA World Cup, but was the lone writer to remain until the final match. Wahl first gained critical acclaim for his cover story "Where's Daddy?" (1998), which documented the growing number of illegitimate children born to professional athletes. Since then, he penned numerous cover stories and profiles on athletes. In addition, Wahl received four Magazine Story of the Year awards given by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
Wahl was promoted to the position of senior writer at Sports Illustrated in October 2000, where he mostly covered soccer for both the magazine and SI.com. He wrote over 50 cover stories for the magazine. In 2002, he wrote a cover story on LeBron James, one of the earliest national pieces on the high school basketball player who would go on to be recognized as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Wahl took a year-long break from the magazine to accompany his wife Celine Gounder during a research trip to South Africa in 2008. During this time, he wrote his first book, The Beckham Experiment (2009), which focused on the 2007 move of David Beckham to the LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer and his impact on the league. It became a New York Times Best Seller.
In October 2009, while covering the fourth round of 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, Wahl was robbed of his phone and wallet at gunpoint in broad daylight in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; earlier in the day, he had interviewed interim Honduran president Roberto Micheletti, who later apologized to Wahl over the incident.
Grant Wahl
Grant Wahl (December 2, 1973 – December 10, 2022) was an American sports journalist and soccer analyst for CBS Sports, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a correspondent for Fox Sports, based in New York City. He was also the author of the book The Beckham Experiment (2009). Wahl covered the Battle of Lusail match in Qatar 2022, when he collapsed during extra time and died a few hours later.
His Sports Illustrated career mainly focused on college basketball and soccer in the United States. Wahl ran for the FIFA presidency in 2011, but withdrew his campaign after failing to receive an endorsement from a football association. He left Sports Illustrated in 2020 and founded his own podcast and newsletter.
Wahl died from an aortic aneurysm on December 10, 2022, while in Lusail, Qatar as he was covering the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Wahl was born on December 2, 1973, in Mission, Kansas; he had one older brother, Eric. He was a fan of the Kansas City Comets, a local indoor soccer team. Wahl graduated from Shawnee Mission East High School and was an Eagle Scout. He went on to study at Princeton University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Politics in 1996.
During his first year at Princeton University, Wahl was a reporter for the Daily Princetonian and covered the Princeton Tigers men's soccer team, then coached by Bob Bradley, who would go on to manage Major League Soccer teams and the United States national team. Bradley provided Wahl with an opportunity to study abroad in Argentina, spending time with Boca Juniors, before returning to the United States for the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Wahl cited his experiences with Bradley as having been a catalyst for his love of the sport. His senior thesis at Princeton University investigated the relationship between Argentinean clubs, democratic practices, and civil society.
In 1996, Wahl began his career working with the Miami Herald as an intern and later declined an offer to become a staff writer there. From there, he joined Sports Illustrated in November 1996 as a fact-checker and later began covering college basketball as well as soccer. During his career, Wahl reported on 12 NCAA basketball tournaments, eight FIFA men's World Cups, four FIFA Women's World Cups, and five Olympic Games. He was one of three Sports Illustrated journalists to cover the 1998 FIFA World Cup, but was the lone writer to remain until the final match. Wahl first gained critical acclaim for his cover story "Where's Daddy?" (1998), which documented the growing number of illegitimate children born to professional athletes. Since then, he penned numerous cover stories and profiles on athletes. In addition, Wahl received four Magazine Story of the Year awards given by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
Wahl was promoted to the position of senior writer at Sports Illustrated in October 2000, where he mostly covered soccer for both the magazine and SI.com. He wrote over 50 cover stories for the magazine. In 2002, he wrote a cover story on LeBron James, one of the earliest national pieces on the high school basketball player who would go on to be recognized as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Wahl took a year-long break from the magazine to accompany his wife Celine Gounder during a research trip to South Africa in 2008. During this time, he wrote his first book, The Beckham Experiment (2009), which focused on the 2007 move of David Beckham to the LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer and his impact on the league. It became a New York Times Best Seller.
In October 2009, while covering the fourth round of 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification, Wahl was robbed of his phone and wallet at gunpoint in broad daylight in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; earlier in the day, he had interviewed interim Honduran president Roberto Micheletti, who later apologized to Wahl over the incident.