Steven van Dorpel statue

This is a statue to the memory of Steven van Dorpel, a Surinamese-Dutch footballer, born in Amsterdam in 1965.

He played professional football with teams in the Netherlands. In 1989, he was invited to play in a team of Surinamese-Dutch footballers in a friendly tournament in Suriname. However, the airplane on which the team travelled crashed, killing 178 people including Steven van Dorpel. He was…