Fred Patrick

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Fred Patrick
Personal information

Full name	Frederik Arnold Patrick
Date of birth	(1965-07-25)July 25, 1965
Place of birth	Paramaribo, Suriname
Date of death	June 7, 1989(1989-06-07) (aged 23)
Place of death	Zanderij Airport, Paramaribo, Suriname
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Attacking Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
-1987	AZ Alkmaar	?	(?)
1987-1989	PEC Zwolle	?	(?)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Frederik Arnold ("Fred") Patrick (July 25, 1965 – June 7, 1989) was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he served AZ Alkmaar and PEC Zwolle. Patrick was born in Paramaribo, where he died at the age of 23, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash. He was nicknamed "Stevie" for his well-known imitations of Stevie Wonder.

Patrick made his professional debut at AZ Alkmaar where he was part of the magic Surinamese trio existing of Patrick, Paul Nortan and Sigi Lens. In 1987 he decided to make a switch and signed for PEC Zwolle. This turned out to be no successful move as they were battling against relegation the whole season long. Eventually, on the last matchday in a match against FC Den Bosch they were officially relegated from the Eredivisie to the Eerste Divisie.

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 Patrick, making it the worst ever aviation disaster in Suriname's history. Among the victims were a total of 15 members of the Colourful 11, only three of them survived.

The east stand of the new IJsseldelta Stadion was named after Fred Patrick in 2007. The other stands were named after Henk Timmer, Klaas Drost and Marten Eibrink.

References

Patrick at AndroKnel.nl (Dutch)
Fred Patrick stand (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	Patrick, Fred
Alternative names
Short description	Dutch footballer
Date of birth	July 25, 1965
Place of birth	Paramaribo, Suriname
Date of death	June 7, 1989
Place of death	Zanderij Airport, Paramaribo, Suriname

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