death_date nationalcaps manageryears birth_date years death_place caps goals nationalyears name fullname birth_place nationalteam height nationalgoals clubs position managerclubs article_title
11 may 2015 19 1968 1968 -- 1971 13 december 1927 1947 1967 1967 -- 1968 1968 -- 1971 -- 1949 1949 -- 1966 1960 1966 -- lincolnshire , england 495 45 37 9 1956 -- 1960 john hewie john davison hewie pretoria , south africa scotland 6 2 2 arcadia -rrb- arcadia united bexley united arcadia shepherds shepherds charlton athletic → arcadia shepherds -lrb- loan left back -rrb- bexley united arcadia john hewie

john hewie

john davison hewie -lrb- 13 december 1927 -- 11 may 2015 -rrb- 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 .
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 for the `` addicks '' and playing in almost every position , including four times as a goalkeeper , 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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
