Dennis Amos Marshall Maxwell (9 August 1985 – 23 June 2011) was a Costa Rica international

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who played as a

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Club career

Marshall started his career at local side Limonense, before moving to

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in 2007. He joined Herediano on loan for the 2009 Verano season. In September 2009 he moved abroad to play for

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club AaB.

International career

Marshall made his debut for

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in a June 2009

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match against

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.Dennis Marshall muere en accidente de tránsito
- Nación Overall, he earned a total of nineteen caps, scoring one goal. He represented his country in four

matches and played at the

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and

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s. On 18 June 2011, five days before his death, Marshall played his last match for Costa Rica, a

quarter-final match against

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. The match saw Marshall scoring his sole goal for Costa Rica, which he dedicated to his fiancée, who died with him in the accident.

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.

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 east of San José while on their way to Marshall's parents in

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. Marshall had scored the only goal for Costa Rica five days earlier in a match against

in the quarterfinals of the

. His death was marked in several ways in his home country. The president of Costa Rica,

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, went on national television and expressed her sympathy and a memorial ceremony was held in

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, the stadium of Marshall's former club, CS Herediano.

References

External links

Official Danish Superliga player statistics
at danskfodbold.com
CS Herediano profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marshall, Dennis 1985 births 2011 deaths Footballers from Limón Province Men's association football defenders Costa Rican men's footballers 21st-century Costa Rican sportsmen Costa Rica men's international footballers 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup players 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players Puntarenas F.C. players C.S. Herediano footballers AaB Fodbold players Costa Rican expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark Road incident deaths in Costa Rica