Marilyn Marshall is a former

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player and

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player who represented

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at international level. Marshall made her

Football Ferns The New Zealand women's national football team, nicknamed the Football Ferns, is governed by New Zealand Football (NZF). The New Zealand national team qualified for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, held in China in September 2007, sending the t ...

debut in their first ever international as they beat

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2–0 on 25 August 1975 at the inaugural

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, her sister Debbie Leonidas making her New Zealand debut in the same match. She has the distinction of scoring New Zealand's first ever women's international goalA History Of New Zealand Women's Soccer
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Honours

New Zealand *

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1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people New Zealand women's international footballers New Zealand women's association footballers Women's association footballers not categorized by position {{NewZealand-women-footy-bio-stub