Ruud "Rudy" Degenaar (21 August 1963 – 7 June 1989 near
Zanderij Airport) was a Dutch
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
. He died at the age of 25, when on 7 June 1989 he was killed in the
Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in
Paramaribo.
Club career
During his career he played for
Heracles Almelo
Heracles Almelo is a Dutch professional football club based in Almelo, founded in 1903. The club has won the Dutch national title twice, in 1927 and 1941. Heracles won the Eerste Divisie title during the 2004–05 season, gaining promotion to th ...
.
Career stats
- Heracles Statistieken
Personal life
His father, Dolf Degenaar, was also a professional footballer, who played for PEC Zwolle in the 1960s.
Death
He was invited by Sonny Hasnoe
Sonny is a common nickname and occasional given name. Often it can be a derivative of the English word "Son", a name derived from the Ancient Germanic element *sunn meaning "sun", a nickname derived from the Italian name Salvatore (especially in N ...
, the founder of the Colourful 11
Surinam Airways Flight 764 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname on a Surinam Airways DC-8-62. On Wednesday 7 June 1989, the f ...
, 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 Zanderij International Airport, killing 176 of the 187 on board, including Degenaar and his girlfriend Hedwig Wolthuis, making it the worst ever aviation disaster in Suriname's history. Among the dead were a total of 15 members of the Colourful 11; only three of them survived.
References
External links
Degenaar at AndroKnel.nl
* Iwan Tol: Eindbesteming Zanderij; het vergeten verhaal van het Kleurrijk Elftal ()
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1963 births
1989 deaths
People from Para District
Men's association football central defenders
Dutch men's footballers
Surinamese emigrants to the Netherlands
Heracles Almelo players
Eerste Divisie players
Eredivisie players
Footballers killed in the Surinam Airways Flight 764 crash