Jean Petit (footballer, born 1914)

{{short description|Belgian footballer}}

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| birth_date = 25 February 1914

| birth_place = Liège, Belgium

| death_date = {{death date and age|1944|5|25|1914|2|25|df=yes}}

| death_place = Liege, Belgium

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| position = Defender

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| years1 = 1930–1939

| clubs1 = Standard de Liège

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| nationalyears1 = 1938

| nationalteam1 = Belgium

| nationalcaps1 = 4

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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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.standard.be/fr/a_joueurs_det.php?id=370 |title=Player page at standard.be |access-date=23 August 2010 |archive-date=12 September 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912010916/http://www.standard.be/fr/a_joueurs_det.php?id=370 |url-status=dead }} He played four times for Belgium in 1938.[http://www.footbel.be/fr/nationale_elftallen/statistieken_1/per_speler.html Player caps at the site of the URBSFA] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525152231/http://www.footbel.be/fr/nationale_elftallen/statistieken_1/per_speler.html |date=25 May 2011 }}

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.[https://uurl.kbr.be/1533462 La Légia 30 May 1944 pages 2 and 3)] (French language) Retrieved 18 August 2022.

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