Introduction
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. 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. 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.. Marshall left Motherwell FC in June 2015 to take up the position of full-time goalkeeping coach with Aberdeen FC.
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
- Scottish First Division winner
- 1991
- Celtic
- Scottish Cup winner
- 1995
- Scottish League Cup runner-up
- 1994
- Kilmarnock
- Scottish League Cup runner-up
- 2001
- Motherwell
- Scottish League Cup runner-up
- 2005