Laurie Schwab was an Australia

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n journalist and broadcaster. Schwab was best known as a soccer writer for The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

 newspaper in Melbourne

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Early life

Schwab was the son of German immigrants and grew up in St Albans, Victoria.

Journalism

He joined The Age in the early 1970s where he soon became a soccer writer. He later founded and edited a specialised soccer newspaper, Soccer Action, published by The Age's parent company Fairfax

Fairfax Media

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. He also occasionally commentated on the game for ABC Radio

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For his services to soccer he was in 1999 posthumously inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.