Robert Grasso is an

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, Sydney-based Sports Editor/Supervising Producer (Sport) with

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. He also serves as a

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for the network's flagship program, SBS World News. Grasso is one of SBS' longest-serving members, having worked on location at some of the station's biggest sporting events including the 2018 FIFA World Cup (Russia), 2014 FIFA World Cup (Brazil), and the 1998 FIFA World Cup (France). He has covered international track & field on location, including the 2001 (Canada) and 2003 (France)

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. He has reported on Davis Cup

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

around Australia and covered the Australia national soccer team World Cup qualifying campaigns in the

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Career

With a degree in Commerce (

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), he began his career as a

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for SBS TV promoting News, Current Affairs and Sport. After attending the

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and Max Rowley Media Academy, Grasso embarked on a career in

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...

. His big break in television came in 1996, working as a weekend reporter on SBS TV's nightly sports show, '' Toyota World Sports''. Grasso has covered many sports, including tennis,

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

(both domestically and internationally), winning an

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media award for television news coverage in 2002.Athletics Australia Annual Report
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References

External links

Robert Grasso's blog
at sbs.com.au
Facebook page
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