Jean Petit (footballer, born 1914)

Jean Petit
Personal information
Date of birth	25 February 1914
Place of birth	Liège, Belgium
Date of death	25 May 1944 (aged 30)
Place of death	Liege, Belgium
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1930–1939	Standard de Liège
International career
1938	Belgium
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

Belgian international in 1938 (4 caps)
Picked for the 1938 World Cup (did not play)
Vice-Champion of Belgium in 1936 with Standard de Liège

References

^ "Player page at standard.be". Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
^ Player caps at the site of the URBSFA Archived 25 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ La Légia 30 May 1944 pages 2 and 3) (French language) Retrieved 18 August 2022.

External links

Jean Petit at WorldFootball.net

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[1] "Player page at standard.be". Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2010.

[2] Player caps at the site of the URBSFA Archived 25 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine

[3] La Légia 30 May 1944 pages 2 and 3) (French language) Retrieved 18 August 2022.

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