Personal information | |||
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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 | 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]
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]