Sigi Lens

Surinam Airways Flight PY764 air crash in Paramaribo on 7 June 1989. His nephew Jeremain Lens

AZ in the 1985-86 season when he featured in a team with players like Kees Kist and Pier Tol

Feyenoord Rotterdam and PSV Eindhoven who were all beaten at Fortuna's homeground De Baandert

Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport, killing 176 of the 187 on board, 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, including Lens survived. One of his best friends Fred Patrick with whom he played together at AZ was among the deaths. Lens would never play professional football again due to a complicated pelvic fracture

VVCS (Vereniging Voor Contract Spelers) [Association For Contract Players] and became one of their player's agents. He would work mostly with the black players, with whom he built up close relationships. The VVCS reasoned that a black agent would sooner gain the trust of the black players. After a few years half way during the 1990s he and colleague Peter Gerards were charged for a possible fraud. It was said they might have been earning money for transfers without the VVCS or the player in question knowing. As a result, both were fired by the VVCS, but as a result of the rumours a lot of the players at the VVCS left as well. The affaire with Gerards and Lens in the main roles made it possible for commercial investors to start their own agencies. This was also due to the Bosman ruling