The soccer community — and the journalism community as a whole — received utterly devastating news late Friday night ET/early Saturday morning Qatar time. Grant Wahl passed away while covering the Netherlands/Argentina quarterfinal at the 2022 World Cup. The last tweet from his account came shortly after the Dutch pulled level with the Argentinians in the 10th minute of 2nd-half stoppage time on a set piece.
Wahl’s brother, Eric, first reported Grant’s death on an Instagram video, stating in a comment that Wahl had collapsed at Lusail Stadium and was given CPR before being taken by Uber to the hospital, where he later died.