Kick Smit

{{Short description|Dutch footballer (1911–1974)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Kick Smit

| image = KickSmit1946cropped.jpg

| caption = Smit in 1946

| full_name = Johannes Chrishostomus Smit

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1911|11|03}}

| birth_place = Bloemendaal, Netherlands

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1974|7|01|1911|11|03}}

| death_place = Haarlem, Netherlands

| height =

| position = Striker

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 =

| years1 = 1928–1949

| clubs1 = HFC Haarlem

| caps1 = 387

| goals1 = 139

| nationalyears1 = 1934–1946

| nationalteam1 = Netherlands

| nationalcaps1 = 29

| nationalgoals1 = 26

| manageryears1 = 1950–1956

| managerclubs1 = HFC Haarlem{{cite web|url=http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A010733892%3Ampeg21%3Ap003%3Aa0084|title=Delpher Kranten – Nieuwsblad van Friesland : Hepkema's courant 18-08-1950|work=kb.nl}}{{cite web|url=http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A010952475%3Ampeg21%3Ap005%3Aa0188|title=Delpher Kranten – Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad 26-03-1956|work=kb.nl}}

| manageryears2 = 1956–1958

| managerclubs2 = AZ '54

| manageryears3 = 1965–1966

| managerclubs3 = HFC Haarlem

}}

Johannes Chrishostomus{{cite web|url=https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/detail/56047241|title=BS Geboorte met Johannes Chrishostomus Smit.|work=Noord-Hollands Archief|access-date=15 October 2018}}{{cite news|url=https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=ddd:011198529:mpeg21:a0012|title=Familieberichten.|newspaper=De Telegraaf|access-date=15 October 2018}} "Kick" Smit (3 November 1911 – 1 July 1974){{cite web|url=http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A010958500%3Ampeg21%3Ap012%3Aa0201|title=Delpher Kranten – Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad 02-07-1974|work=kb.nl|access-date=12 January 2013|archive-date=13 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213185150/http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A010958500%3Ampeg21%3Ap012%3Aa0201|url-status=dead}} was a Dutch footballer who played as a striker. He earned 29 caps and scored 26 goals for the Netherlands national team,{{cite web|url=http://eu-football.info/_player.php?id=19559|title=Kick Smit – national football team player|work=Kick Smit – national football team player}} and played in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups.[https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition=3/teams/team=43960.html 1934 FIFA World Cup Italy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013212353/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/edition%3D3/teams/team%3D43960.html |date=13 October 2011 }} He is the first Netherlands football player who scored a goal in a World Cup (27 May 1934 against Switzerland). During his club career, he played for HFC Haarlem.