- Wendel Fräser
Football player infobox
playername= Wendel Fräser
fullname = Wendel Fräser
nickname =
dateofbirth =June 2 ,1967
cityofbirth =Paramaribo
countryofbirth =Suriname
dateofdeath = death date and age|1989|6|7|1967|6|2
cityofdeath = Zanderij Airport,Paramaribo
countryofdeath =Suriname
position = Forward
height =
youthyears = -1987
youthclubs =Feyenoord Rotterdam
years = 1987-1988
1988-1989
1989-1989
clubs =Feyenoord Rotterdam RBC Roosendaal
SVV
caps(goals) = 0 (0)
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0 (0)Wendel Fräser (born
June 2 ,1967 inParamaribo - diedJune 7 ,1989 inParamaribo ) was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he servedFeyenoord Rotterdam andRBC Roosendaal . He died at the age of 22, when onJune 7 ,1989 he was killed in theSurinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash inParamaribo .Fräser was a postman in
Rotterdam and played in the youth squads ofFeyenoord Rotterdam . He was known as a talented player and was promoted to the first team of Feyenoord in the 1987-88 season. He did not yet make his debut that season, but remained on the bench. The next season he was transferred toRBC Roosendaal where he made his professional debut. After that season he signed a new contract at SVV for whom he would have been playing from the 1989-90 season.He was invited by
Sonny Hasnoe , the founder of theColourful 11 to be part of the team and travel to Suriname to play in the "Boxel Kleurrijk Tournament" with three Surinamese teams. The Surinam Airways Flight PY764 crashed during approach toParamaribo-Zanderij International Airport , killing 176 of the 187 on-board, including Fräser, making it the worst ever aviation disaster in Suriname's history. Among the deads were a total of 15 members of the Colourful 11, only three of them survived.In memoriam of Fräser the "Wendel Man of the Match Throphy" is given to RBC's best player of the season every year. The supporters home at the
RBC Stadion is also named after Fräser.References
* [http://www.androknel.nl/elftal/fraser/index.htm Fräser at AndroKnel.nl] nl
* [http://www.ajax-usa.com/history/fifteen-years/1989/june-1989.html Crash report]
* [http://speednews.derat.nl/nieuwsitemnieuw.asp?id=8975 De Rat.nl] nl
* Iwan Tol: Eindbesteming Zanderij; het vergeten verhaal van het Kleurrijk Elftal (ISBN 9020403664) nl
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