Date uploaded: 2022-12-14 16:13:08

Renowned soccer journalist Grant Wahl died of an aortic aneurysm, his widow announced Wednesday on CBS Mornings. Wahl died Saturday at age 49 while covering a World Cup quarterfinal match in Qatar between Argentina and the Netherlands. Wahl's wife Céline Gounder, an infectious disease specialist and epidemiologist at New York University, said that the New York City Medical Examiner's office performed the autopsy. “It’s just one of those things that had been likely brewing for years,” Gounder said to CBS. "And for whatever reason it happened at this point in time." Click the link in @usatoday’s bio for the full story.