Wendel Fräser

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Wendel Fräser

Full name	Wendel Fräser
Date of birth	June 2, 1967
Place of birth	Paramaribo, Suriname
Date of death	June 7, 1989 (aged 22)
Place of death	Zanderij Airport, Paramaribo, Suriname
Playing position	Forward
Youth clubs
-1987	Feyenoord Rotterdam
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987-1988 1988-1989 1989-1989	Feyenoord Rotterdam RBC Roosendaal SVV	0 (0) ? (?) 0 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Wendel Fräser (born June 2, 1967 in Paramaribo - died June 7, 1989 in Paramaribo) was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served Feyenoord Rotterdam and RBC Roosendaal. He died at the age of 22, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo.

Fräser was a postman in Rotterdam and played in the youth squads of Feyenoord 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 to RBC 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 the Colourful 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 to Paramaribo-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.

Colourful 11 squad

Surinam Airways Flight PY764

Deaths: Degenaar • Doesburg • Van Dorpel • Fräser • Goodings • J. Haatrecht • Joemankhan • Knel • Kogeldans • Linger • Patrick • Scharmin • Veldman • Vijent • Manager: Stienstra • Survivors: De Haan • Lens • Nandlal

[edit] References

Fräser at AndroKnel.nl (Dutch)
Crash report
De Rat.nl (Dutch)
Iwan Tol: Eindbesteming Zanderij; het vergeten verhaal van het Kleurrijk Elftal (ISBN 9020403664) (Dutch)