• Wahl covered sports, people, and cutting-edge issues.
• Sportswriters analyze sport’s social and political surroundings.
• He covered a variety of sports, but his true passion was soccer.

Grant Wahl, who was covering the World Cup in Qatar, unexpectedly passed away suddenly, while Argentina and the Netherlands were playing yesterday.

The best sports journalists are those that go beyond what occurs on the field of play and offer perception into the social and political context in which sport is played.

One such journalist, Grant Wahl, had a distinguished career covering a wide range of sporting events, individuals, and cutting-edge issues in sports and beyond.

Early in his career, he covered a variety of sports, but as time went on, soccer became his main passion. While tributes are flooding in and others are speculating about the circumstances of his demise, his death has shocked followers and supporters throughout the world.

Grant Wahl is a sportswriter who has the talent to convey tales that go beyond the game.

Although he had already won some praise from critics, most notably for a story titled Where’s Daddy (1998) about children born to professional athletes who were not their parents, his most recent reportage would have a significant impact on both his reputation and that of the athlete he covered.

In 2002, Wahl referred to Lebron James as the “Chosen One,” arguably the best basketball player in history. Two decades later, many people are still in awe at Wahl’s level of comprehension and insight from the SI article.

For SI, Wahl would pen up to 50 cover pieces, many of which were in-depth studies of the athlete or team he was covering.

He wasn’t only concerned with the player’s abilities or game strategy. Wahl possessed a keen eye for things that others would overlook and was more of a philosopher.

For instance, his debut book The Beckham Experiment (2009) detailed the incredible transfer of Major League Soccer (MLS) star David Beckham from English sport.

The book’s genius was in the way it connected smaller-scale structural difficulties in American soccer with personal experiences from Beckham and others close to him. Later, this book would become a New York Times bestseller.

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U.S. Soccer Statement On The Passing Of Grant Wahl: pic.twitter.com/CBp1mCK1mQ

— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) December 10, 2022

He would cover a variety of sports, but his true passion was soccer. He was the foremost expert on the game for the American audience. He contributed significantly to the development of the game in the US to where it is today.

At a time when nobody seemed interested, Wahl covered the US Women’s Team. At a time when the globe believed that the MLS was on the rise, he wrote about the league’s issues. He wasn’t cynical, but he viewed things as they are and wrote with the intention of improving them.

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