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US soccer journalist Grant Wahl dies while covering Qatar World Cup

Grant Wahl
Grant Wahl was covering the World Cup quarter-final when he died. Photograph: Doug Zimmerman/ISI Photos/Getty Images

US soccer journalist Grant Wahl has died after suffering an apparent heart attack at Lusail Stadium, where he was covering the World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and the Netherlands on Friday night.

Wahl, who was a correspondent for CBS Sports and wrote a popular Substack column, was 49 years old.

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