Personal information | |||
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Full name | Hans-Peter Van Sprew Smit | ||
Date of birth | June 29, 1958 | ||
Place of birth | Jakarta, Indonesia | ||
Playing position | Sweeper, Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Years | Team | ||
? | UP Fighting Maroons | ||
Teams managed | |||
Years | Team | ||
1981–? | De La Salle Santiago Zobel | ||
1996 | Philippines (assistant) | ||
? | Kaya | ||
? | National Capital Region (youth) | ||
?– | DLSU Lady Booters | ||
2008 | Philippines (women's) |
Hans-Peter Van Sprew Smit is an Indonesia-born Filipino football manager. He was assistant coach of the Philippine national football team which participated at the 1996 Tiger Cup.
He is the current head coach of the DLSU Lady Booters which plays in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), as well as at the PFF Women's League.
Smit was born as an Indonesian citizen in Jakarta, Indonesia but moved to the Philippines at age 6. Smit attended the University of the Philippines for his college and pursued a sports major program after considering to pursue a course in Human Resource Management and Mass Communication. He represented his school as a varsity player at the UAAP Football Championships. He voluntarily chose to drop out from the university to focus on his coaching career.
Smit started his coaching career in football at age 21 making him the youngest football coach in the country at that time. He began his coaching career with the newly formed De La Salle Santiago Zobel School football team in 1981.He also became the youngest Athletic Director in the country when he initiated a varsity program for the Alabang-based De La Salle Santiago Zobel School. Smit coached the schools' boys' team.
Among the other teams Smit had coached is Kaya and the National Capital Region youth team.
Smit led the DLSU Lady Booters to the top of its group at the elimination round of the UAAP Season 77 football tournament in 2015. In 2016, he served as the first head coach of the team at the PFF Women's League mentoring the team in the 2016-17 season.