Hans Smit
{{Short description|Indonesian-born Filipino football coach (born 1958)}}
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{{Infobox football biography
| name = Hans Smit
| fullname = Hans-Peter Van Sprew Smit
| image =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|06|29}}
| birth_place = Jakarta, Indonesia
| position = Sweeper, Midfielder
| youthyears1 = ?
| youthclubs1 = UP Fighting Maroons
| manageryears1 = 1981–?
| managerclubs1 = De La Salle Santiago Zobel
| manageryears2 = 1996
| managerclubs2 = Philippines (assistant)
| manageryears3 = ?
| managerclubs3 = Kaya
| manageryears4 = ?
| managerclubs4 = National Capital Region (youth)
| manageryears5 = ?–
| managerclubs5 = DLSU Lady Booters
| manageryears6 = 2008
| managerclubs6 = Philippines (women's)
}}
Hans-Peter Van Sprew Smit (born June 29, 1958) is an Indonesian-born Filipino football coach. He was an assistant coach of the Philippine national football team, which participated at the 1996 Tiger Cup.{{cite news|title=Three charged with corruption in recent Tiger Cup tournament|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=apQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iwsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4200%2C3090664|accessdate=24 March 2015|publisher=Manila Standard|date=21 September 1996|location=Singapore|quote=... Told the Manila Standard that he was informed by RP coach Hans Smit that it was his (Smit) players led by Saluria who reported the case...}}{{cite news|last1=Perez|first1=Jonathan|title=RP out of step with a football-crazy world|url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/193267/news/football/rp-out-of-step-with-a-football-crazy-world|accessdate=24 March 2015|publisher=GMA News|date=11 June 2011|quote=That's not how the rest of the world thinks, according to former Philippine national team coach Hans Smit, an Indonesian citizen with roots in Holland, a world football power.}}{{cite news|last1=Amigo|first1=Ismael|title=Filipinos face Singaporeans Today|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XpQVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iwsEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6563%2C1020377|accessdate=26 March 2015|publisher=Manila Standard Today|date=7 September 1996|quote=... ,said Hans Smit, assistant RP coach}}
He is the current head coach of the DLSU Lady Booters which plays in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), as well as at the PFF Women's League.
Early life and education
Smit was born as an Indonesian citizen in Jakarta, Indonesia but moved to the Philippines at age 6. Smit attended the University of the Philippines for his college and pursued a sports major program after considering to pursue a course in Human Resource Management and Mass Communication.{{Cite episode | first = Hans | last = Smit | first2 = Jing| last2 = Jamlang | date = 10 October 2013 | title = Pilot | trans-title = | medium = Podcast | language = English, Filipino | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji2np9GmwW8&index=42&list=PL5DScDrnjFIFAq3uVi-zewmp_bPuw996z | access-date = 17 June 2016 | series = Hans On| format = | time =15:19-15:50, 20:50-21:20, 24:24-24:40 | location = | publisher = New Media Factory TV |season=1 |number=1 }} He represented his school as a varsity player at the UAAP Football Championships. He voluntarily chose to drop out from the university to focus on his coaching career.
Coaching career
Smit started his coaching career in football at age 21 making him the youngest football coach in the country at that time. He began his coaching career with the newly formed De La Salle Santiago Zobel School football team in 1981. He also became the youngest Athletic Director in the country when he initiated a varsity program for the Alabang-based De La Salle Santiago Zobel School. Smit coached the schools' boys' team.{{cite news|last1=Runes|first1=Jason|title=Four head coaches who redefined Lasallian sports|url=http://thelasallian.com/2014/05/12/four-head-coaches-who-redefined-lasallian-sports/|accessdate=21 June 2015|publisher=The LaSallian|date=12 May 2014}}
Among the other teams Smit had coached is Kaya and the National Capital Region youth team.{{cite news|last1=Olivares|first1=Rick|title=Bleachers' Brew #93 Who's afraid of Hans Smit?|url=http://bleachersbrew.blogspot.com/2008/02/bleachers-brew-93-whos-afraid-of-hans.html|accessdate=24 March 2015|work=Bleachers' Brew|publisher=Business Mirror|date=4 February 2008}}
Smit led the DLSU Lady Booters to the top of its group at the elimination round of the UAAP Season 77 football tournament in 2015.{{cite news|last1=Co|first1=Adrian Stewart|title=DLSU secures top spot in UAAP football|url=http://panaynewsphilippines.com/2015/02/25/dlsu-secures-top-spot-in-uaap-football/|accessdate=24 March 2015|publisher=Panay News|date=25 February 2015}} In 2016, he served as the first head coach of the team at the PFF Women's League mentoring the team in the 2016-17 season.{{cite web|title=PFF Women's League - Season 2016-2017 Teams - De La Salle University (DLSU)|url=https://www.facebook.com/PinayFutbol/photos/a.1091194527646116.1073741955.160598930705685/1091194764312759/?type=3&theater|website=Facebook|publisher=Pinay Futbol|accessdate=6 December 2016|date=3 December 2016}} He guided the team in its 3–0 win against OutKast on their first match of the second round of the league's season which assured them of the league title.{{cite news|last1=Montayre|first1=Mia|title=PFFWL Roundup: Second round opening win virtually guarantees La Salle league title|url=http://tiebreakertimes.com/tbt/pffwl-roundup-second-round-opening-win-virtually-guarantees-la-salle-league-title/99934|accessdate=30 October 2017|work=Tiebreaker Times|date=20 October 2017}}
Smit also organizes football festivals, leagues and national championships. He is an official Match Commissioner for the Philippine Football Federation and certified by the Asian Football Confederation.
=International=
Smit had a brief stint as head coach of the Philippine women's national team in 2008. He replaced Marlon Maro who last led the team at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games.{{cite news|last1=Tupas|first1=Cedelf|title=PFF eyes Fegidero as RP XI coach|url=http://www.archives.visayandailystar.com/2008/February/02/sportnews2.htm|accessdate=1 May 2015|publisher=Visayan Star|date=2 February 2002}} Smit led the team at the 2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualifiers. He was replaced by Joey Villarino the same year who was first tasked to guide the team at the 2008 AFF Women's Championship.{{cite news|last1=Tupas|first1=Cedelf|title=Lady booters open bid vs Singapore|url=http://sports.inquirer.net/inquirersports/inquirersports/view/20081009-165424/Lady-booters-open-bid-vs-Singapore|accessdate=1 May 2015|publisher=Philippine Daily Inquirer|date=9 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140121034741/http://sports.inquirer.net/inquirersports/inquirersports/view/20081009-165424/Lady-booters-open-bid-vs-Singapore|archive-date=21 January 2014|url-status=dead}}
Personal life
Naturalization
A bill was filed on March 17, 2015 before the Senate by Senators Pia and Alan Cayetano regarding the granting of Philippine citizenship to Hans Smit for staying more than 50 years in the country and for his contribution to Philippine football.{{cite web|last1=Cayetano|first1=Pia|last2=Cayetano|first2=Allan|title=An Act Granting Philippine Citizenship to Hans-Peter Smith|url=http://www.senate.gov.ph/lisdata/2079717890!.pdf|website=Senate of the Philippines|accessdate=24 March 2015}}
On June 6, 2016, the bill was approved in the Senate in the third and final reading, in time for the 16th Congress' sine die adjournment.{{cite news|url=https://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2016/0606_prib1.asp|title=Senate adjourns sine die, approves 2 bills|website=Senate of the Philippines|date=June 6, 2016|accessdate=June 7, 2016}} On July 21, 2016, Smit became a naturalized Filipino citizen with the lapsing into law of the bill now known as Republic Act No. 10914, which was regarding his naturalization.{{cite news|title=Indon football coach gets Filipino citizenship|url=http://www.mb.com.ph/indon-football-coach-gets-filipino-citizenship/|accessdate=7 August 2016|work=Manila Bulletin|date=31 July 2016}}
References
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Category:Filipino football managers
Category:Filipino people of Indonesian descent
Category:University of the Philippines alumni
Category:Philippines women's national football team managers
Category:University Athletic Association of the Philippines men's footballers
Category:Naturalized citizens of the Philippines
Category:Filipino people of Dutch descent