Soccer journalist Grant Wahls body returned to US
WASHINGTON (AP) ” The body with every one other accompanied by possessions of soccer journalist Grant Wahl were repatriated to the United States on Monday following his demise last week while covering the World Cup inside Qatar, a older State Department official said.
The official said Wahl™s remains with every one other accompanied by his belongings arrived at New York™s John F. Kennedy Airport around 8:30 a.m. ET. They were accompanied by a consular official from the U.S. Embassy inside Doha who had had custody of Wahl™s remains since in a short time following he collapsed throughout Friday™s match in the centre of Argentina with every one other accompanied by the Netherlands with every one other accompanied by subsequent died.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity since of privacy concerns, had no indeed additional details nevertheless said the embassy inside Qatar had been employed accompanied by Wahl™s family to build sure the repatriation went smoothly.
Wahl, an American journalist who helped grow the popularity of soccer inside the United States with every one other accompanied by reported on some of the biggest stories inside the sport, was 49.
Tributes to Wahl have poured inside since his demise with every one other accompanied by on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken added his power of speech to the chorus of appreciation.
I so appreciated Grant Wahl, whose writing captured not only the essence of the beautiful game nevertheless too the world around it, Blinken wrote on Twitter concerning an hour following the repatriation was complete.
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I dispatch my deepest condolences to his family, with every one other accompanied by express gratitude to our embassy team with every one other accompanied by Qatari partners who worked with every one other so effectively to fulfill their wishes, Blinken wrote.
Wahl, who had complained of respiratory problems earlier inside the week with every one other accompanied by had been treated for a possible instance of bronchitis, fell spine inside his seat inside a segment of Lusail Stadium reserved for journalists throughout additional hour dated of the game, with every one other accompanied by reporters adjacent to him called for assistance.
Emergency services workers responded extremely quickly, treated him for 20 or 30 minutes on location with every one other accompanied by at that hour dated took him not here on a stretcher. The World Cup organizing committee said he was taken to Doha™s Hamad General Hospital, nevertheless it did not condition a source of death.
Wahl wrote for Sports Illustrated for additional than set of two decades with every one other accompanied by at that hour dated started his own website. He was a greatest power of speech informing an American condition of soccer throughout a hour dated of increased attentiveness following the United States hosted the 1994 World Cup.
He too brought a critical eye to the international organizing bodies of the sport.
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