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Johannes Chrishostomos "Kick" Smit (born November 3, 1911 in Bloemendaal , † July 1, 1974 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch football player . He was a player for HFC Haarlem in the 1930s and 1940s , with which he won the Dutch championship in 1946. In 29 games for the Dutch national team , he scored 26 goals.
Club career
The Catholic Smit made his first game in the first team of the Roman Catholic club Geel-Wit at the age of 13 ; At 14 he went to the RKVV Onze Gezellen, which is also a denominational leader . In 1934 he moved to the non-denominational HFC Haarlem , where the tech-savvy striker quickly conquered his regular position on the half-left and also became a national player . After six years, in 1940 he moved to the Heemstede Berkenrode Combinatie (HBC), which - like Geel-Wit and Onze Gezellen - belonged to the Roman Catholic Football Association and not to the Dutch Football Association KNVB. A Roman Catholic publisher had offered him a job if he moved to HBC and worked as a coach for several other teams. The change was accompanied by the fact that he was no longer allowed to play for the national team.
After the war he returned to Haarlem and became the “heart and soul” of the team. The storm with Smit, left winger Piet Groeneveld and center forward Wim Roosen laid the foundation for HFC to win the Dutch championship in 1946. Although Haarlem lost 8-0 at home to Ajax (with Rinus Michels ), this was only one of two defeats in the finals; the title was decided with a 2-0 win over Heerenveen (with Abe Lenstra ), to which Kick Smit contributed the second goal with an unsustainable header.
In the 1954/55 season, he was now 43 years old, once again as a player-coach at HFC and made three more games for the first team; in his comeback game he marked the first goal for the team.
National team
Smit made his debut in the Nederlands elftal shortly after moving to HFC Haarlem on March 11, 1934 in Amsterdam in a friendly against Belgium . Oranje won 9-2; Like Beb Bakhuys, Smit scored two goals; however, both were dwarfed by Leen Vente , who contributed the remaining five goals. The referee of this game was the German Peco Bauwens . After his debut, Smit was used in qualifying for the World Cup in Italy; he scored two goals in the 5-2 win against the Irish Free State team, and contributed one goal to the subsequent 4-2 win in Belgium. Smit was also part of the Dutch team at the final tournament in Italy ; he made sure in the San Siro Stadium for the 1-1 equalizer against Switzerland and thus scored the first World Cup goal in the Netherlands; However, the team lost 3-2 and was eliminated.
In qualifying for the 1938 World Cup , he also scored a goal; in the finals he could not prevent his team from losing 3-0 to Czechoslovakia . Due to his change to the Catholic HBC he was no longer eligible for the KNVB from 1940, but this only had an effect on three games, since no international matches were played during the occupation during the Second World War and its aftermath between April 1940 and March 1946.
After the war Smit came to two missions in 1946, including one as a team captain . In its last game in Orange , the team lost on November 27, 1946 in Huddersfield 2: 8 against England ; Kick Smit said goodbye in the 87th minute with the last goal of the game and his career from the national team; After that, Abe Lenstra, who was nine years his junior, usually played on the half-left.
Trainer
In 1950, Smit ended his active career. He later coached various teams from the west of the Netherlands: HFC Haarlem, RCH, HBC, Alkmaar '54, Aalsmeer and Wijk aan Zee .
Away from the football field
Together with Abe Lenstra and Faas Wilkes , Kick Smit served as a template for the character Kick Wilstra in a comic strip series.
During and after his work as a trainer he worked for sixteen years in the training of sports instructors at the Centraal Instituut Opleiding Sportleiders (CIOS).
He died at the age of 62 after a long illness.
Achievements and honors
In 1946 Smit became Dutch champions with HFC Haarlem.
The sports department of the Haarlem Dagblad declared Smit the Haarlem athlete of the 20th century.
HFC Haarlem named a grandstand in its stadium after Kick Smit.
Individual evidence
- ↑ There are different spellings for the middle name. Chrishostomos is the one on the HFC Haarlem website ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and in nl: Kick Smit used, which is also in the library information for a book about his life at the Archiefdienst voor Kennemerland ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. finds. Weltfussball.de uses the Chrysostom version ; John Chrysostom was a Roman Catholic saint. There is also the spelling Chrihostomos ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , which is probably a typo.
- ↑ a b c biography ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Museum van de Vaderlandse Geschiedenis , viewed on July 7, 2008
- ↑ Kick Smit. De Haarlemse voetballegende ( Memento of the original of July 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , quoted from De Eerste Nederlandsche Voetbalboeken Boekhandel , viewed on July 7, 2008
- ↑ Game data ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Voetbalstats.nl
- ↑ De Kick Wilstra Site , viewed June 26, 2008.
Web links
- Profile on the KNVB website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Smit, kick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smit, Johannes Chrishostomos (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bloemendaal |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1974 |
| Place of death | Haarlem |