Journalist Grant Wahl has died while covering the World Cup in Qatar, after collapsing during the quarter-final match between Argentina and the Netherlands. FIFAWorldCup
In one of his last reports, Grant Wahl wrote about the death of a migrant worker, saying the response from Qatar's World Cup organisers shows they "just don't care."A United States journalist covering the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Grant Wahl, died in Qatar on Friday.
"NPR can confirm the death of longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl. He died today in Doha, Qatar while covering the Argentina-Netherlands World Cup quarterfinal," an NPR reporter tweeted late on Friday.Wahl's wife, infectious disease physician Celine R. Gounder, responded to the US Soccer tweet, writing: "I am 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.
Wahl's agent Tim Scanlan confirmed the death, saying he collapsed during the closing minutes of the quarter-final match between Argentina and the Netherlands, according to a New York Times report.“He said, ‘I just need to like relax for a bit.”Wahl wrote on Monday that he had visited a hospital while in Qatar.
"I didn't have Covid , but I went into the medical clinic at the main media center today, and they said I probably have bronchitis," he wrote on Substack. Wahl, a former Sports Illustrated journalist, said last month that he was briefly detained when he tried to enter a World Cup stadium in Qatar while wearing a rainbow shirt in support of the LGBTIQ+ community in a country where same-sex relations are illegal.Wahl said in late November that World Cup security denied him entry to the United States' opener against Wales at the Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium in Al Rayyan due to the rainbow shirt he was wearing and asked him to take his shirt off.
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