Remembering Grant Wahl, a Champion of American Soccer
The journalist died on Friday in Qatar at age 49.
Updated at 1:15 p.m. ET on December 10, 2022.
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Twenty years ago, when I first called the soccer writer Grant Wahl, he was an exotic species. In those days, most writing about American games existed in niche magazines with low
