Wahl’s untimely death in Qatar, where he was writing daily World Cup stories for his own subscription website on Substack, shocked the soccer world
soccer was seen as a sort of a JV beat at America’s most influential sports publication. While most young writers of his generation yearned to cover more established U.S. sports like baseball, basketball or football, Wahl— who died on early Saturday, while covering thein Qatar, at 48 years old, had fallen in love with the game. He foresaw a global beat he could own.
“I’m coughing a lot,” Wahl also said in a podcast before he died. “It sounds like a death rattle sometimes.”
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