Ray Fränkel (born 15 September 1982 in

Paramaribo Paramaribo (; ; nicknamed Par'bo) is the capital and largest city of Suriname, located on the banks of the Suriname River in the Paramaribo District. Paramaribo has a population of roughly 241,000 people (2012 census), almost half of Suriname's ...

) is a

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who is currently playing for

S.V. Transvaal Sport Vereniging Transvaal is a Surinamese association football club, which currently play in the SVB Eerste Divisie, Eerste Divisie, the top flight of football in Suriname. They play their home games in Paramaribo at André Kamperveen Stadion to ...

Career

Fränkel started his playing career at the local

, before being snapped by the Dutch giants

Feyenoord Rotterdam Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names before settling on being called after it ...

. After failing to break into the Feyenoord's first team, Fränkel moved to the

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side

Flora Tallinn FC Flora, commonly known as Flora Tallinn, or simply as Flora, is a professional Football team, football club based in Tallinn, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football league system, Estonian football. The ...

. He made a total of 14 appearances for Flora, before returning to the Netherlands for the 2003–2004 season, when he signed with

FC Groningen Football Club Groningen () is a Dutch professional association football club based in Groningen, province of Groningen. Founded on 16 June 1971 as the successor of GVAV, the team compete in the Eredivisie, the highest tier of Dutch football. G ...

. After failing to make any real impact and finding his first-team opportunities limited at the

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club, Fränkel moved again. This time to the

Eerste Divisie The Eerste Divisie (, en, First Division) is the second-highest tier of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie and with the third-level Tweede Divisie via promotion/relegation systems. It is also known as the ...

side

Fortuna Sittard Fortuna Sittard (; li, Fortuna Zitterd ) is a football club in Sittard, Netherlands. The club currently plays its football in the 12,500 capacity Fortuna Sittard Stadion and features in the Eredivisie. The club was established through a merger ...

, but after one season and not much first-team action at the new club, Ray moved to Fortuna's

rivals

HFC Haarlem HFC Haarlem was a Dutch football club from the city of Haarlem, established in 1889 and dissolved in 2010. The club won the Eredivisie in 1946 and reached five Cup finals, winning in 1902 and 1912. Haarlem reached the second round of the 1982 ...

. In 2007 Fränkel signed with the

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club

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. After three years was in summer 2010 released by

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and signed on 4 September 2010 with

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club

FC Lisse FC Lisse is a Dutch football club from Lisse which was founded in 1981. It currently plays in the Tweede Divisie. History The history of FC Lisse is linked to its Catholic religion, the first version of a football club being formed in 1911 by a ...

. After half year resigned his contract with

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and joined to

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. On July 1, 2013 he signed with one of Suriname's greatest clubs

Personal life

Ray is the Son of Iwan Fränkel, and the cousin of Purrel Fränkel.

References

Surinamese footballers Surinamese expatriate footballers Suriname international footballers Eredivisie players Eerste Divisie players SVB Eerste Divisie players FC Groningen players Fortuna Sittard players FC Flora players 1982 births Living people Surinamese expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands Expatriate footballers in Estonia Royal Antwerp F.C. players Sportspeople from Paramaribo Expatriate footballers in Belgium Surinamese expatriate sportspeople in Belgium S.V. Transvaal players FC Lisse players Expatriate footballers in Qatar Al-Shahania SC players Qatari Second Division players Association football defenders {{Suriname-footy-bio-stub