Rudy Degenaar

Ruud Degenaar ( born August 21, 1963; † June 7, 1989 at Zanderij, Suriname, Rudy or Rudi Degenaar ) was a Dutch- Surinamese football player.

Degenaar was an athletic defender who Wiel Coerver so much impressed that he chose it as a model for the photos in his training textbook empty plan voor de ideal Voetballer from 1983. His father had also been Dolf Degenaar football player in the 1950s and 1960s, including long in the first team of FC Zwolle. Rudi, as Ruud was called, played professionally at Heracles Almelo. In 1985, he was as Hendrie Krüzen as jonkie, as a young player to the team that was able to celebrate promotion to the Eredivisie. In the season 1985/86 he graduated first eight games for the Go Ahead Eagles Deventer, before he came back in Almelo 16 other inserts in the Eredivisie. After the direct descent he remained at SC Heracles in the Eerste Divisie. Alongside he occasionally played indoor soccer, so for the team Yozgatspor, with which he won in 1987 a multicultural indoor tournament in Hengelo.

In 1989, he toyed with the idea of ​​a change of clubs; Interest in his obligation was at FC Twente Enschede and MVV Maastricht from, but also in various Belgian clubs. Before his plans were more concrete, he was appointed in June 1989 in the Kleurrijk Elftal, a selected team of Dutch and Surinamese football player. The team wanted to travel to a friendly tournament in Paramaribo. Shortly before landing crashed the SLM Flight 764 at Zanderij from; Degenaar and his girlfriend Hedwig Wolthuis were among the 176 casualties of the aircraft accident.