This summer the American Outlaws, the U.S. soccer team fan group, carried a picture of Wahl on their pregame march to the World Cup stadiums. Gounder now wonders if Wahl would have revived his attempt, from 15 years ago, to run for FIFA president. His radical-transparency platform reads especially prescient today. The Library of Congress has reached out to Gounder and is in the process of collecting Wahl’s papers. “Though his career was cut short, we want to preserve Mr. Wahl’s contributions to the intersection of writing, sports, and human rights as part of our national collections that document the full scope of American history and culture,” Sherri Seau, a modern American historian at the Library of Congress, writes in an email. Wahl’s papers will be part of its collections that also include the likes of Jackie Robinson, Katharine Graham, and legendary New York Times reporter Neil Sheehan.
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