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]
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]