# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CmHd3W8tIJC
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19114988-thekansascitystar-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-12-13T17:34:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

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Nearly every morning throughout the World Cup in Qatar, the first voice Angie Long sought to hear from outside the home was that of Shawnee Mission East classmate and cherished friend Grant Wahl.

She even listened Friday to his final “Fútbol with Grant Wahl” podcast episode and knew he’d been very sick with bronchitis — but with no way of knowing what the deeper implications might be.

So amid the devastation of his astonishing death at age 49 later that day, she searched Saturday morning for the voices speaking of him.

By 8 a.m., she observed there had been some 207,000 posts on Twitter about Wahl, who attended Princeton with Angie and husband Chris Long, owners of the kccurrent along with Brittany Mahomes.

“So many people thought they knew him so personally,” Angie said Sunday. “And the breadth of the people that he touched, in this country and in the world, is just incredible.”

He was a citizen of the world, writes columnist Vahe Gregorian recognizing few if any boundaries, literally or figuratively, in the considerable courage and span of his work. But wherever he roamed or lived, he remained rooted here … and his towering work and gracious presence will endure in Kansas City.

Simply put, the KC Current wouldn’t exist without the advice of Wahl, as Chris Long put it on Twitter. Read more about what the Longs had to say about Wahl at the link in our bio. 

#KansasCity #WorldCup #GrantWahl #Soccer #Futbol #FIFAWorldCup #Qatar2022 #kccurrent

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kansascity, grantwahl, fifaworldcup, soccer, qatar2022, kccurrent, worldcup, futbol

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