{"id":444993,"date":"2022-12-10T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T16:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=444993"},"modified":"2022-12-10T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T20:10:57","slug":"american-soccer-journalist-grant-wahl-dies-at-qatar-world-cup-here-s-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/american-soccer-journalist-grant-wahl-dies-at-qatar-world-cup-here-s-what-we-know","title":{"rendered":"American soccer journalist Grant Wahl dies at Qatar World Cup. Here&#8217;s what we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent American soccer journalist Grant Wahl died suddenly in Qatar while covering Friday&#8217;s World Cup game between the Netherlands and Argentina. Wahl, who grew up in Mission, Kansas, was perhaps the most well-known soccer writer in the United States. Wahl also had a presence on television, working for Fox Sports and CBS Sports and had his own Substack newsletter, GrantWahl.com. He also was the author of the 2009 New York Times bestseller &#8220;The Beckham Experiment,&#8221;&nbsp;that chronicled the impact of David Beckham&#8217;s move to the MLS&#8217; LA Galaxy. He celebrated his 48th birthday on Wednesday, tweeting while there were no games he was happy to be with friends and colleagues. Who is Grant Wahl? If you are a fan of soccer, you know Grant Wahl. If you aren&#8217;t, you may still have heard of his award-winning journalism. He spent 24 years with Sports Illustrated, joining the magazine after he graduated from Princeton in 1996, where he wrote about soccer and college<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Wahl, who just celebrated his 48th birthday, covered eight World Cups. He died after falling back in his seat in the media center on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,1,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mls","category-news","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}