A RARE tragedy for a football journalist Grant Wahl to kick the bucket during the Qatar World Cup.
He then got transferred to Hamad General Hospital, said a spokesperson for the Supreme Court Committee for Delivery and Legacy, the body responsible for planning the tournament.He was treated in the stadium “for about 20-25 minutes” before he was moved to the hospital, Keir Radnedge, a columnist at World Soccer Magazine, said.
He added that the medical team were there “pretty quickly and were able to, as best they could, give treatment.”The circumstances around his death are not immediately clear. Wahl had been reportedly tweeting during the match, which was part of the eighth World Cup he had covered.
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