About Andrew Dettre
Lived 1926 – 2018 (aged 91–92). Andrew Dettre was a journalist.
Andrew Dettre (1926 – 25 June 2018) was an Australian soccer journalist.
Dettre was born in Hungary and arrived in Australia in 1948 at the age of 22. He worked as a journalist before leaving his home country and soon continued this vocation in Australia, working for The National Advocate in Bathurst and later the Daily Telegraph in Sydney. In 1963, he became editor of Soccer World, a national soccer newspaper. He contributed to Soccer World as Paul Dean as he was still a feature writer for the Daily Telegraph. He later used the pseudonym Mike Renwick while writing for Soccer World when he was working as an adviser to Frank Stewart, a minister in the Whitlam government.
Shortly before Dettre died in 2018, he was honoured with being inducted into the Football Australia Hall of Fame.
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Who was Andrew Dettre?
Australian journalist
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Andrew Dettre was born in 1926.
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Andrew Dettre died in 2018.
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Andrew Dettre was a journalist.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Andrew Dettre. https://biography.guide/andrew-dettre/
MLA: "Andrew Dettre." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/andrew-dettre/.
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