Gordon Marshall (footballer, born 1964)

Gordon Marshall
Personal information
Full name Gordon Marshall
Date of birth (1964-04-19) 19 April 1964
Place of birth Edinburgh, Scotland
Playing position Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1982–1983 Rangers 0 (0)
1982 → East Stirlingshire (loan) 15 (0)
1983–1987 East Fife 156 (0)
1987–1991 Falkirk 171 (0)
1991–1998 Celtic 100 (0)
1993 → Stoke City (loan) 10 (0)
1997 → St Mirren (loan) 1 (0)
1998–2003 Kilmarnock 156 (0)
2003–2005 Motherwell 67 (0)
2006 Hibernian 0 (0)
Total 677 (0)
National team
1992 Scotland 1 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Gordon Marshall (born 19 April 1964) is a former Scottish professional football goalkeeper. He is currently goalkeeping coach at Aberdeen.

Player

Marshall began his career as a youth player at Rangers, but failed to make any first team appearances for the club. He went on to play for East Stirlingshire, East Fife and Falkirk before joining Celtic for £270,000 in 1991.

After over 7 years at Celtic Park, having made exactly 100 league appearances, he departed for Kilmarnock in 1998. Whist at Celtic Marshall spent time out on loan at St Mirren and English club Stoke City with whom he made 13 appearances with in 1993–94.[1] After 5 years at Rugby Park, he moved to Motherwell in 2003, helping the Steelmen reach the 2005 League Cup Final.

Bridge into coaching

Marshall joined the Celtic coaching staff before retiring as a player in 2005.

Marshall joined the Hibernian coaching staff in November 2005 and left this position in July 2009.[2][3] Marshall then worked for Alloa Athletic FC and St Johnstone FC as a goalkeeping coach before returning to Motherwell FC in August 2011 as their full-time goalkeeping coach..[4] Marshall left Motherwell FC in June 2015 to take up the position of full-time goalkeeping coach with Aberdeen FC.[5][6]

Marshall was capped once by Scotland, against the United States in May 1992.

Family

His father, also a goalkeeper named Gordon, was capped at under-23 level by England. He is married with two daughters, Amy and Fay. His younger brother Scott played as a defender with Arsenal, Southampton and Celtic. He also has a sister who played basketball and has 58 caps for Scotland.

Honours

Falkirk
Celtic
Kilmarnock
Motherwell

References

  1. ↑ Matthews, Tony (1994). The Encyclopaedia of Stoke City. Lion Press. ISBN 0-9524151-0-0.
  2. ↑ "Marshall parting Well for Hibees". BBC Sport. BBC. 9 November 2005. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  3. ↑ Gordon Marshall, Hibernian F.C. official website.
  4. ↑ Barnes, John (18 August 2011). "Well coach Gordon Marshall wants keeper excellence". BBC Sport. BBC. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
  5. ↑ "New Goalkeeping Coach for The Dons". www.afc.co.uk. Aberdeen FC. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Aberdeen: Gordon Marshall to be new goalkeeping coach". BBC Sport. BBC. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
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