Jean Petit
Personal information
Date of birth 25 February 1914
Place of birth Liège, Belgium
Date of death 25 May 1944(1944-05-25) (aged 30)
Place of death Liege, Belgium
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1930–1939 Standard de Liège
International career
1938 Belgium 4 (0)
*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

References

  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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