Grant Wahl, a US soccer journalist, died one day after telling the World Cup medical clinic that he was suffering from bronchitis. Khalid al-Misslam was a Qatari photographer who worked for Al Kas TV. He died on Saturday.
Although the circumstances surrounding al-Misslam’s death are not known, it was announced on the same day as a security guard suffered serious injuries when he fell at Lusail Iconic Stadium . The Guardian reported
According to the Guardian, Wahl, 49, was injured in a fall at Lusail Stadium. He was covering the same game with the guard. Witnesses claimed that Wahl fell in his chair and received emergency treatment on-site before being taken to hospital.
Eric Wahl, Eric’s brother, stated that Grant was initially denied entry to the stadium because he wore a shirt with a soccer ball surrounded by a rainbow in support of the LGBTQ+ community before the US played Wales. Grant was not allowed to enter the stadium at first because he wore a shirt that had a soccer ball and a rainbow around it in support of the LGBTQ+ community.
According to the New York Post, Wahl’s Substack reports that a prominent soccer journalist had also criticised Qatar. One article condemned organizers for the deaths hundreds of workers involved in building the stadium.
They don’t even care. He wrote that Qatari World Cup organizers are not ashamed of their indifference to the deaths of migrant workers, even the most recent.
According to reports, the guard who died in his fall was a migrant worker. After Saturday’s quarter-final match between Argentina and Netherlands, the man fell at 2:20 a.m. local.
