FIFA Honoring Grant Wahl at World Cup Game

The U.S World Cup/soccer journalist, Grant Wahl was officially pronounced dead December 10. The U.S soccer journalist suddenly passed out or ‘fell ill’ while covering the World Cup in Qatar on Friday at age 48 after collapsing at the quarterfinal match between Argentina and the Netherlands.

There are many soccer fans, along with Grant’s brother Eric Wahl, who were and still are starting to believe that the death of Grant was no medical issue. Instead it is believed that he was murdered this suggesting that their was foul play on Qatar’s end; introducing the thought that Qatar didn’t like the critical reporting from Wahl on FIFA and how the Qataris had been running the tournament. Not only was it the way Grant was reporting, but on November 21, weeks prior to him falling ill, Grant wore a rainbow T-shirt in support of LGBTQ rights to the United States' World Cup opener against Wales. Upon entry the security refused to give him access and then told him to remove the shirt, he was then detained for 25 minutes at Ahmed Bin Ali stadium in Al Rayyan, then was let go by a security commander. Wahl said FIFA apologized to him.

Despite all the allegations that Grant was murdered, it was announced by his wife that he had died from an ascending aortic aneurysm, and his death as of now had nothing to do with foul play and nothing was nefarious with his death. Riley Buniger was happy about this and said, “I’m really glad that there wasn’t any kind of foul play involved in his death because who knows how that would have affected the World Cup and how his family would have been affected because he definitely was a good journalist and didn’t deserve to die at such a young age.” FIFA had celebrated him with a posy of white lilies and a framed photograph of Wahl taken in Qatar was left at the media seat that had been assigned, and a picture of Wahl on the big screen before the match had started.