Jean_Petit_(footballer,_born_1914)

Jean Petit (footballer, born 1914)

Jean Petit (footballer, born 1914)

Belgian footballer

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]

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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. [1]
    "Player page at standard.be". Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  2. [2]
    Player caps at the site of the URBSFA Archived 25 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    La Légia 30 May 1944 pages 2 and 3) (French language) Retrieved 18 August 2022.


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