Florian Vijent

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Florian Vijent
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Full name	Florian Vijent
Date of birth	(1961-11-28)November 28, 1961
Date of death	June 7, 1989(1989-06-07) (aged 27)
Place of death	Zanderij Airport, Paramaribo, Suriname
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
????-1989	Telstar	?	(?)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Florian Vijent (November 28, 1961 – June 7, 1989), was a Dutch-Suriname football goalkeeper. During his career he played for Telstar. He died at the age of 27, when on June 7, 1989, he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo. He is not related to Ed Vijent.

Vijent's large build was one of the reasons he became a goalkeeper. At the end of the 1988-89 season he was named as "Best goalkeeper of the season" in the Eerste Divisie. Vijent resembled AFC Ajax goalkeeper and close friend Stanley Menzo, who often borrowed Vijent's drivers license.

Together with Menzo and teammate Radjin de Haan 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" against three Surinamese teams. Although Menzo was instructed to not participate in the tournament by Ajax, he defied his club, booking an earlier flight to Suriname. On June 7, 1989, Surinam Airways Flight PY764 crashed during approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport, killing 176 of the 187 passengers on board, including Vijent, making it the worst ever aviation disaster in Suriname's history. Of the 18-member Colourful 11 team, only De Haan and two other team members survived the accident.

Vijent's younger brother Patrick was facing psychological problems even before Florian's death. His problems, however, merely worsened after Florian's death and only a few days after the accident he committed suicide by throwing himself in front of an oncoming train.

References

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

v t e Surinam Airways Flight 764

7 June 1989

Deaths	Degenaar Doesburg Van Dorpel Fräser Goodings Haatrecht Joemankhan Knel Kogeldans Linger Patrick Scharmin Stienstra Veldman Vijent

Survivors	De Haan Lens Nandlal

Persondata
Name	Vijent, Florian
Alternative names
Short description	Dutch footballer
Date of birth	November 28, 1961
Place of birth
Date of death	June 7, 1989
Place of death	Zanderij Airport, Paramaribo, Suriname

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