John Hewie

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John Hewie
Full name	John Davidson Hewie
Date of birth	December 12, 1928 (1928-12-12) (age 79)
Place of birth	Pretoria, South Africa
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position	Versatile
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1949–1968 1968 1968-1971	ISCOR Arcadia Johannesburg Charlton Athletic Bexley United Arcadia	495 0(37)
National team
1956-1960	Scotland	19 (2)
Teams managed
1968 1968-1971	Bexley United Arcadia
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

John Davidson Hewie (born December 12, 1928 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a former Scottish international footballer who spent most of his career with Charlton Athletic.

Hewie was born in Transvaal 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 .^[1] Football however was his primary past-time 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^[2] for the Addicks and playing in almost every position, including four times as a goalkeeper,^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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 currently lives in Spalding, Lincolnshire and still attends Charlton Athletic matches when the opportunity allows.^[2]

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b "netaddicks Greatest Team: Centre-Half", Rivals.net, 2005-07-03.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Hewie swapped the High Veldt for Hampden", The Scotsman, 2006-04-15.
^ Lamming, Douglas (1987). A Scottish Soccer Internationalists Who’s Who, 1872-1986 (Hardback), Hutton Press. (ISBN 0-907033-47-4).

v • d • e Scotland squad - 1958 FIFA World Cup

1 Younger • 2 Brown • 3 Parker • 4 Caldow • 5 Hewie • 6 Haddock • 7 McColl • 8 Turnbull • 9 Evans • 10 Docherty • 11 Mackay • 12 Cowie • 13 Baird • 14 Leggat • 15 Scott • 16 Murray • 17 Mudie • 18 Coyle • 19 Collins • 20 Robertson • 21 Imlach • 22 Fernie • Coach: Walker