.louisahthomas remembers Grant Wahl, who died this month while reporting on the World Cup, as “synonymous with soccer journalism” in the United States.
—but he was also persistent in his pursuit of smaller stories, for covering the sport with a steady rhythm and depth. “He had a huge part in growing and building the game and legitimizing it,” Julie Foudy, a midfielder for the 1999 U.S. World Cup title team, and now an analyst for ESPN, told me.
Soccer was Wahl’s “way of experiencing the world,” Wahl’s wife, Céline Gounder, told me. “A way of experiencing different cultures, different countries.” It was a way of writing about people—their passions, their triumphs, their failings. While Wahl was pushing to do more and more soccer stories, Gounder was getting her M.D. and becoming a
.” It was characteristically intelligent and rich with detail and intrigue, and it became a best-seller. When Wahl returned to, he did it as a full-time soccer writer—a position that did not seem like a silly idea to anyone anymore.
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