Kick Smit
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Johannes Chrishostomus Smit | ||
Date of birth | 3 November 1911 | ||
Place of birth | Bloemendaal, the Netherlands | ||
Date of death | 1 July 1974 | (aged 62)||
Place of death | Haarlem, the Netherlands | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1928–1949 | HFC Haarlem | 387 | (139) |
International career | |||
1934–1946 | Netherlands | 29 | (26) |
Managerial career | |||
1950–1956 | HFC Haarlem | ||
1956–1958 | AZ '54 | ||
1965–1966 | Haarlem | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Johannes Chrishostomus "Kick" Smit (3 November 1911 – 1 July 1974) was a Dutch football player. He earned 29 caps and scored 26 goals for the Netherlands national football team, and played in the 1934 and 1938 World Cups. 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.
Categories:
- 1911 births
- 1974 deaths
- People from Bloemendaal
- Dutch footballers
- Netherlands international footballers
- HFC Haarlem players
- 1934 FIFA World Cup players
- 1938 FIFA World Cup players
- Dutch football managers
- HFC Haarlem managers
- AZ Alkmaar managers
- Association football forwards
- Footballers from North Holland
- Dutch football forward stubs