Grant Wahl has passed away

The soccer community — and the journalism community as a whole — received utterly devastating news late Friday night ET/early Saturday morning Qatar time. Grant Wahl passed away while covering the Netherlands/Argentina quarterfinal at the 2022 World Cup. The last tweet from his account came shortly after the Dutch pulled level with the Argentinians in the 10th minute of 2nd-half stoppage time on a set piece.

Wahl’s brother, Eric, first reported Grant’s death on an Instagram video, stating in a comment that Wahl had collapsed at Lusail Stadium and was given CPR before being taken by Uber to the hospital, where he later died. In the video, Eric Wahl, who is gay, expressed skepticism over the…