fullname youthclubs years death_date death_place youthyears clubs caps goals position birth_date image article_title name
andy scharmin vv haaksbergen fc twente ???? - ???? 7 june 1989 zanderij airport , paramaribo , suriname ???? - ???? ???? -1987 vv haaksbergen ? ? left back 29 november 1967 andy scharmin.jpg andy scharmin
 andy scharmin
andy scharmin

andy scharmin -lrb- 29 november 1967 -- 7 june 1989 in paramaribo -rrb- was a surinamese-dutch footballer .
during his career he served fc twente .
he died at the age of 21 , when on 7 june 1989 he was killed in the surinam airways flight py764 air crash in paramaribo .
he was the captain of the netherlands u-21 team .
his mother was from suriname , while his father was german .
scharmin lived and grew up in haaksbergen and played his first football at vv haaksbergen .
a few years later he was scouted by fc twente and joined the youth squads of that team .
he was known as a social guy and a talented player with a great future ahead of him .
he made his professional debut for fc twente on 16 october 1987 in the home match against willem ii tilburg which was won 1-0 .
it did n't take scharmin long to convince his coaches to become a first team regular .
manager theo vonk brought him in the squad as a midfielder , but during the season he was lined-up as a left back and became a fan favourite and a delight for the eye .
he was very fast , never failed in his determination to win and always managed to do what the coach was asking for .
also in zeist , where the royal dutch football association is located his talents were notified .
he was called up for the netherlands u-21 team and even became captain .
in a combination match of the under-21s and the netherlands national football team against the germany national football team scharmin fooled german football legend franz beckenbauer .
after the confrontation between the younger sides of the countries the players would take place on the stands to watch the national sides play each other in a friendly .
in the changing rooms scharmin saw a uniform of a stadium official and dressed himself up in the outfit .
soon after that franz beckenbauer arrived on his way to the stands and scharmin who spoke fluent german asked beckenbauer for his ticket .
beckenbauer was unable to show his ticket and scharmin did not let him through .
this became a very emotional incident that was eventually solved .
on 11 december 1988 fc twente played a memorable match against feyenoord rotterdam , one of the giant teams in the netherlands .
scharmin featured in the match that was won in style , 6-1 .
at the end of the 1988-89 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 .
he also was selected for the dutch under-21 team to represent them at the toulon tournament .
several people , including manager vonk advised him to go to toulon , but scharmin knew that his mother had not been back to suriname in 40 years and decided to join the colourful 11 .
together with his mother and aunt he boarded the airplane and went to suriname .
the surinam airways flight py764 crashed during approach to paramaribo-zanderij international airport , killing 176 of the 187 on board , including scharmin and both his mother and aunt , 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 .
shortly after the accident fc twente played a friendly match against fc barcelona in memoriam of scharmin .
the city of haaksbergen , the place where scharmin lived awards the andy scharmin trophy every year to the most talented sportsperson of the city .
