Wendel Fräser

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Wendel Fräser
Personal information

Full name	Wendel Fräser
Date of birth	June 2, 1967
Place of birth	Paramaribo, Suriname
Date of death	June 7, 1989(1989-06-07) (aged 22)
Place of death	Zanderij Airport, Paramaribo, Suriname
Playing position	Forward
Youth career
0000–1987	Feyenoord Rotterdam
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1987–1988	Feyenoord Rotterdam	0	(0)
1988–1989	RBC Roosendaal
1989–1989	SVV	0	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Wendel Fräser (June 2, 1967 in Paramaribo – June 7, 1989 in Paramaribo) was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. He suited up for Feyenoord Rotterdam and RBC Roosendaal in his brief career, cut short when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo, at the age of 22.

Fräser was a postman in Rotterdam and played in the youth squads of Feyenoord Rotterdam. Although he was known as a talented player and was promoted to the first team of Feyenoord in the 1987–88 season, he was an unused substitute 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 those killed were a total of 15 members of the Colourful 11, leaving three survivors from that contingent.

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.

External links

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)

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	Fraser, Wendel
Alternative names
Short description	Dutch footballer
Date of birth	June 2, 1967
Place of birth	Paramaribo, Suriname
Date of death	June 7, 1989
Place of death	Zanderij Airport, Paramaribo, Suriname

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