Personal information | |||
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Full name | Dennis Amos Marshall Maxwell | ||
Date of birth | 9 August 1985 | ||
Place of birth | Limón, Costa Rica | ||
Date of death | 23 June 2011 | (aged 25)||
Place of death | San José, Costa Rica | ||
Position(s) | Center back, left back | ||
Youth career | |||
2006–2007 | Limonense | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2007–2008 | Puntarenas | 30 | (3) |
2009 | → Herediano (loan) | 18 | (0) |
2009–2011 | AaB | 22 | (2) |
International career | |||
2009–2011 | Costa Rica | 19 | (1) |
*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.
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]
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]
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 18 June 2011 | New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, United States | Honduras | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
Marshall was a son of Dennis Marshall Herron, a former Costa Rica national team player. [9]
On 23 June 2011, Marshall and his 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.
Personal information | |||
---|---|---|---|
Full name | Dennis Amos Marshall Maxwell | ||
Date of birth | 9 August 1985 | ||
Place of birth | Limón, Costa Rica | ||
Date of death | 23 June 2011 | (aged 25)||
Place of death | San José, Costa Rica | ||
Position(s) | Center back, left back | ||
Youth career | |||
2006–2007 | Limonense | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2007–2008 | Puntarenas | 30 | (3) |
2009 | → Herediano (loan) | 18 | (0) |
2009–2011 | AaB | 22 | (2) |
International career | |||
2009–2011 | Costa Rica | 19 | (1) |
*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.
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]
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]
Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 18 June 2011 | New Meadowlands Stadium, East Rutherford, United States | Honduras | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
Marshall was a son of Dennis Marshall Herron, a former Costa Rica national team player. [9]
On 23 June 2011, Marshall and his 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.