John Hewie
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | John Davison Hewie[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1927-12-13)13 December 1927 | ||
| Place of birth | Pretoria, South Africa | ||
| Date of death | 11 May 2015(2015-05-11) (aged 87) | ||
| Place of death | Boston, Lincolnshire, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Left back | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1946 | ISCOR Pretoria | ||
| 1947–1949 | Arcadia Shepherds | ||
| 1949–1966 | Charlton Athletic | 495 | (37) |
| 1960 | → Arcadia Shepherds (loan) | ||
| 1966–1967 | Arcadia United | 45 | (9) |
| 1967–1968 | Bexley United | ||
| 1968–1971 | Arcadia Shepherds | ||
| National team | |||
| 1956–1960 | Scotland | 19 | (2) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1968 | Bexley United | ||
| 1968–1971 | Arcadia | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||
John Davison Hewie (13 December 1927 – 11 May 2015) was a South African-born Scottish international footballer, who spent most of his career with Charlton Athletic.
Hewie was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to Scottish ex-pat parents and lived there for the first 21 years of his life. He developed a keen interest in sport while at school, notably tennis and hockey.[2] Football however was his primary pastime and he honed his skills first with his employer's works team then local sides Arcadia and Johannesburg.
In October 1949 the opportunity arose for Hewie to turn professional with English side Charlton Athletic, who had already imported several other South African-based players. He would spend the next 19 years in south-east London, making over 500 appearances[3] for the Addicks and playing in almost every position, including four times as a goalkeeper,[2] when regular custodian Mick Rose was injured.
In 1956 he made his debut for the Scottish national side, playing in a 1–1 draw against England at Hampden Park. His first appearance in a Scotland shirt occurred three years earlier when he was selected for a Scotland B game in Edinburgh. Remarkably, this was the first occasion Hewie had set foot in Scotland.[3] He made a total of 19 appearances for Scotland, predominantly at fullback, during which he scored twice. He was selected in the squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup and missed a penalty in the 2–1 defeat by France.[3]
Hewie briefly moved into a managerial role as his playing career ended, when he undertook the role of player-manager for non-league Kent side Bexley United.[4] He returned to South Africa and first club Arcadia in 1968 and remained in the country of his birth until the early 1990s, at which point he returned to the United Kingdom. He lived in Spalding, Lincolnshire until his death in May 2015.[3][5]
See also[edit]
- List of Scotland international footballers born outside Scotland
References[edit]
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^ ab "netaddicks Greatest Team: Centre-Half". Rivals.net. 3 July 2005. Archived from the original on 18 July 2007.
^ abcd "Hewie swapped the High Veldt for Hampden". The Scotsman. 2006-04-15.
[permanent dead link]
^ Lamming, Douglas (1987). A Scottish Soccer Internationalists Who’s Who, 1872-1986. Hutton Press. ISBN 0-907033-47-4.
^ Former Scotland and Charlton defender John Hewie dies, BBC (11 May 2015)
External links[edit]
John Hewie at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
Scotland squad – 1958 FIFA World Cup | ||
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Categories:
- 1927 births
- 2015 deaths
- Scottish footballers
- South African soccer players
- Scotland international footballers
- Charlton Athletic F.C. players
- 1958 FIFA World Cup players
- Scotland B international footballers
- Sportspeople from Pretoria
- People from Spalding, Lincolnshire
- Bexley United F.C. players
- English Football League players
- London XI players
- Arcadia Shepherds F.C. players
- Scottish football managers
- Scottish expatriate football managers
- South African people of Scottish descent
- Association football fullbacks
- South African emigrants to the United Kingdom
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