The late Grant Wahl can be honored with this yr's Colin Jose Media Award, given to journalists who made long-term contributions to soccer in the US.
Wahl died at age 49 on Dec. 10 after collapsing whereas masking the World Cup quarterfinal between Argentina and the Netherlands at Lusail, Qatar.
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Wahl can be honored on the U.S. Nationwide Soccer Corridor of Fame induction at Frisco, Texas, on Could 6, the corridor mentioned Wednesday. Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Lauren Cheney Vacation, Kate Sobrero Markgraf, former U.S. girls's coach Jill Ellis and Steve Zungul can be inducted into the corridor.
Wahl labored for Sport Illustrated from 1996 to 2021, masking soccer and faculty basketball, then began his personal web site. He additionally labored for Fox and CBS, and he wrote the books "The Beckham Experiment" about England star David Beckham's transfer to Main League Soccer's LA Galaxy and "Masters of Modern Soccer."
An post-mortem by the New York Metropolis Medical Examiner's Workplace decided Wahl died from an aortic aneurysm.
The award, first given in 2004, is called after the Corridor's historian emeritus.
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