Laurie Schwab (died June 1997[1]) was an Australian journalist and broadcaster. Schwab was best known as a soccer writer for The Age newspaper in Melbourne.[2]
Schwab was the son of German immigrants and grew up in St Albans, Victoria.[2][3]
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.[2][3][4] He also occasionally commentated on the game for ABC Radio.[2]
For his services to soccer he was posthumously inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1999.[2]