Rudy Degenaar
Football, Football player
1963 – 1989
Who was Rudy Degenaar?
Ruud "Rudy" Degenaar was a Dutch-Suriname footballer. During his career he played for Heracles Almelo. He died at the age of 25, when on June 7, 1989, he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo. His father, Dolf Degenaar, was also a professional footballer.
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 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.
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- Born
- Aug 21, 1963
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Suriname
- Died
- Jun 7, 1989
Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport
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on July 23, 2013
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