Grant Wahl died of an aneurysm in his heart while covering a World Cup match this past weekend, according to an autopsy of the well-known American soccer writer.
Wahl's wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, said Wednesday that an autopsy was conducted by the New York City Medical Examiner's Office.
"Grant died from the rupture of a slowly growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium," she wrote on her husband's Substack newsletter; hemopericardium refers to blood in the sac that surrounds the heart.
"The chest pressure he experienced shortly before his death may have represented the initial symptoms.