Costa Rican footballer
Dennis Marshall
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| Full name |
Dennis Amos Marshall Maxwell |
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| Date of birth |
(1985-08-09)9 August 1985 |
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| Place of birth |
Limón, Costa Rica |
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| Date of death |
23 June 2011(2011-06-23) (aged 25) |
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| Place of death |
San José, Costa Rica |
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| Position(s) |
Center back, left back |
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| 2006–2007 |
Limonense |
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| Years |
Team |
Apps |
(Gls) |
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| 2007–2008 |
Puntarenas |
30 |
(3) |
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| 2009 |
→ Herediano (loan) |
18 |
(0) |
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| 2009–2011 |
AaB |
22 |
(2) |
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| 2009–2011 |
Costa Rica |
19 |
(1) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Dennis Amos Marshall Maxwell[1] (9 August 1985 – 23 June 2011) was a Costa Rica international footballer who played as a left back.
Club career
Marshall started his career at local side Limonense, before moving to Puntarenas in 2007.[2] He joined Herediano on loan for the 2009 Verano season.[3]
In September 2009 he moved abroad to play for Danish Superliga club AaB.[4]
International career
Marshall made his debut for Costa Rica in a June 2009 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Trinidad and Tobago.[2] Overall, he earned a total of nineteen caps, scoring one goal. He represented his country in four FIFA World Cup qualification matches[5] and played at the 2009[6] and 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cups.[7]
On 18 June 2011, five days before his death, Marshall played his last match for Costa Rica, a 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup quarter-final match against Honduras. The match saw Marshall scoring his sole goal for Costa Rica, which he dedicated to his fiancée, who died with him in the accident.[8]
International goals
- Scores and results list. Costa Rica's goal tally first.
Personal life
Marshall was a son of Dennis Marshall Herron, a former Costa Rica national team player.[9]
Death
On 23 June 2011, Marshall and girlfriend Meilyn Arianna Masís Castro were traveling on the Braulio Carrillo highway in Costa Rica when they were involved in a fatal car accident 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of San José while on their way to Marshall's parents in Limón.[10] Marshall had scored the only goal for Costa Rica five days earlier in a match against Honduras in the quarterfinals of the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup.[11][12]
His death was marked in several ways in his home country. The president of Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, went on national television and expressed her sympathy and a memorial ceremony was held in Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero, the stadium of Marshall's former club, CS Herediano.
