A very well-known American sports journalist, who had been talked about recently after his detention in Qatar for carrying an rainbow t-shirt, died on Friday in Doha, his wife and the American football federation announced on Friday.
Grant Wahl, 48, died by covering the cover of the quarterfinals of the 2022 World Cup between Argentina and the Netherlands on Friday.
According to the American radio NPR, he collapsed in the press rostrum while the match was coming to an end. Medical staff practiced first aid gestures before winning on a stretcher.
According to the American daily The Wall Street Journal, Wahl has apparently succumbed to heart discomfort.
Wahl was married to Doctor Celine Gounder, a recognized specialist in infectious diseases that appeared several times on television during the Pandemic of Cavid-19.
“I’m completely in shock,” she tweeted.
