Jean Petit (footballer, born 1914) explained

Jean Petit
Birth Date:25 February 1914
Birth Place:Liège, Belgium
Death Place:Liege, Belgium
Position:Defender
Years1:1930–1939
Clubs1:Standard de Liège
Nationalyears1:1938
Nationalteam1:Belgium
Nationalcaps1:4
Nationalgoals1:0

Jean Petit (25 February 1914 – 25 May 1944) was a Belgian footballer. He was born in Liège, Belgium. He played as a defender for Standard de Liège.[1] He played four times for Belgium in 1938.[2]

Personal life and death

Petit retired from professional football early and became a medical doctor. He was killed during the Second World War in an Allied air raid in the Liege suburb of Kinkempois after attending a patient injured in an earlier raid.[3]

Honours

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Player page at standard.be . 23 August 2010 . 12 September 2012 . https://archive.today/20120912010916/http://www.standard.be/fr/a_joueurs_det.php?id=370 . dead .
  2. http://www.footbel.be/fr/nationale_elftallen/statistieken_1/per_speler.html Player caps at the site of the URBSFA
  3. https://uurl.kbr.be/1533462 La Légia 30 May 1944 pages 2 and 3)