Grant Wahl

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Birthday	Dec 8, 1974 (48 years old)
Deathday	Dec 9, 2022
Place of birth	Mission, Kansas, USA
Gender	Male

Grant Wahl (December 8, 1974 – December 9, 2022) was an American sports journalist and soccer analyst for CBS Sports, who was best known for having been a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a correspondent for Fox Sports. He was also the author of the book The Beckham Experiment (2009). His Sports Illustrated career mainly focused on college basketball and soccer in the United States. Wahl ran for the FIFA presidency in 2011, but withdrew his campaign after failing to receive an endorsement from a football association. He left Sports Illustrated in 2020 and founded his own Substack newsletter. Wahl died on December 9, 2022 while covering the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.