Series
★ 10.0
2023
The Billion Dollar Goal
The emotional story of soccer in the USA: resilience, redemption and a bright future. Passion, success and the iconic billion-dollar goal.
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Born
1974-12-08 · 48 yrs
Died
2022-12-09
From
Mission, Kansas, USA
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Grant Wahl (December 8, 1974 – December 9, 2022) was an American sports journalist and soccer analyst for CBS Sports, who was best known for having been a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and a correspondent for Fox Sports. He was also the author of the book The Beckham Experiment (2009). His Sports Illustrated career mainly focused on college basketball and soccer in the United States. Wahl ran for the FIFA presidency in 2011, but withdrew his campaign after failing to receive an endorsement from a football association. He left Sports Illustrated in 2020 and founded his own Substack newsletter. Wahl died on December 9, 2022 while covering the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
