- Florian Vijent
Football player infobox
playername= Florian Vijent
fullname = Florian Vijent
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dateofbirth = November 28, 1961
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dateofdeath = death date and age|1989|6|7|1961|11|28
cityofdeath = Zanderij Airport,Paramaribo
countryofdeath =Suriname
position =Goalkeeper
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years = ????-1989
clubs = Telstar
caps(goals) = ? (?)Florian Vijent (November 28, 1961 – June 7, 1989 in
Paramaribo ) was a Dutch-Suriname football goalkeeper. During his career he served Telstar. He died at the age of 27, when on June 7, 1989 he was killed in theSurinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash inParamaribo . He is not related toEd Vijent .Vijent was a big guy, which was the main reason for him to become a goalkeeper. At the end of the 1988-89 season he was named as "Best goalkeeper of the season" in the
Eerste Divisie . Vijent was a look-a-like of fellow goalkeeperStanley Menzo who played forAFC Ajax . They were close friends and Menzo often borrowed Vijent's drivers license.Together with team mate
Radjin de Haan he was invited bySonny Hasnoe , the founder of theColourful 11 to be part of the team and travel to Suriname to play in the "Boxel Kleurrijk Tournament" with three Surinamese teams. His friend Stanley Menzo was also invited, but Ajax did not want to let him go. Eventually Menzo ignored these demands and went as well, but took an earlier flight. The Surinam Airways Flight PY764 crashed during approach toParamaribo-Zanderij International Airport , killing 176 of the 187 on-board, including Vijent, making it the worst ever aviation disaster in Suriname's history. Among the deads were a total of 15 members of the Colourful 11, only three of them survived, one of them being De Haan.Vijent's younger brother Patrick was facing psychologic problems even before the dead of Florian. However after his dead things became worse and only a few days after the accident he threw himself in front of an upcoming train and killed himself.
References
* [http://www.androknel.nl/elftal/vijent/index.htm Vijent at AndroKnel.nl] nl
* [http://www.ajax-usa.com/history/fifteen-years/1989/june-1989.html Crash report]
* Iwan Tol: Eindbesteming Zanderij; het vergeten verhaal van het Kleurrijk Elftal (ISBN 9020403664) nl
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