Frits Goodings (10 October 1963 – 7 June 1989) was a Dutch

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who played for

FC Utrecht Football Club Utrecht () is a Dutch professional association football, football club based in Utrecht. The club competes in the Eredivisie, the top tier of Dutch football league system, Dutch football, and plays its home matches at the Stadion ...

and

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. He died at the age of 25, when on 7 June 1989 he was killed in the Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in

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Career

Goodings was born

. He played in the youth teams of

alongside his friend, Edu Nandlal. His first professional contract was signed at

Death

Both Goodings and Nandlal were invited by Sonny Hasnoe, 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 Douglas DC-8, DC-8-62. On Wednesday 7 June ...

to be part of the team travelling 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, making it the worst ever aviation disaster in Suriname's history. Gooding was among the 15 members of the 18-man Colourful 11 contingent to be killed; only three of them survived, of which Edu Nandlal was one. His father, Frits Goodings, Sr., only found his empty wallet in the woods around Paramaribo at the location of the crash. It was said the victims were robbed from their personal belongings just after the crash.

References

Goodings at AndroKnel.nl
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* Iwan Tol: Eindbesteming Zanderij; het vergeten verhaal van het Kleurrijk Elftal () 1963 births 1989 deaths Dutch men's footballers Dutch sportspeople of Surinamese descent FC Utrecht players FC Wageningen players Eerste Divisie players Men's association football players not categorized by position Footballers killed in the Surinam Airways Flight 764 crash 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-footy-bio-stub