Dennis Marshall (footballer, born 1985)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Marshall and the second or maternal family name is Maxwell.

Dennis Amos Marshall Maxwell^[1] (9 August 1985 – 23 June 2011) was a Costa Rica international footballer who played as a left back.

Dennis Marshall

Marshall playing for AaB
Personal information
Full name	Dennis Amos Marshall Maxwell
Date of birth	(1985-08-09)9 August 1985
Place of birth	Limón, Costa Rica
Date of death	23 June 2011(2011-06-23) (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

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.

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

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 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.