Neale Gordon Marmon (born 21 April 1961 in Bournemouth

Bournemouth

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), is a former English footballer

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 who spend the majority of his career in Germany.

Marmon, son of an officer in the British Army, grew up partly in Germany. Apart from football, Marmon also won a state swimming championship in Lower Saxony, and was an outstanding basketballer. He became the central figure of FC Homburg

FC Homburg

FC 08 Homburg is a German association football club based in Homburg, Saarland. The club was founded on 15 June 1908 as Fussball Club Homburg by a group of seventeen young men at the local Hohenburg pub.- History :...

's shock 4-2 away cup win over FC Bayern Munich

FC Bayern Munich

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 in August 1991.

Career

Neale Marmon spend his early football years at Plymouth Argyle and Torquay United, making four appearances for the later in the 1979-80 season. In 1982, he joined SC Rinteln and, the following year, TuS Hessisch-Oldendorf, two amateur clubs from the German state of Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

. With Hessisch-Oldendorf, he played in the third division Oberliga Nord

Oberliga Nord

The Oberliga Nord was the fourth tier of the German football league system in the north of Germany. It covered the states of Niedersachsen, Bremen, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein...

 for a season before joining VfL Osnabrück

VfL Osnabrück

VfL Osnabrück is a German multi-sport club in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It currently fields teams in basketball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, and tennis, but is by far best known for its football section.- Foundation to WW2 :...

 in the same league.

He began his professional football career in Germany with VfL Osnabrück

VfL Osnabrück

VfL Osnabrück is a German multi-sport club in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony. It currently fields teams in basketball, gymnastics, swimming, table tennis, and tennis, but is by far best known for its football section.- Foundation to WW2 :...

 in the German 2nd Bundesliga

2nd Bundesliga

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 in 1985, having won the Oberliga championship the previous year. After five seasons with the club, he was transferred to Hannover 96

Hannover 96

Hannoverscher Sportverein von 1896, commonly referred to as Hannover 96, Hannover or simply 96, is a German association football club based in the city of Hanover, Lower Saxony.-Foundation to WWII:...

 for the sum of DM 150,000. He played with the Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

 club for half a season in the 2nd Bundesliga but fell out with manager Slobodan Cendic

Slobodan Cendic

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 and moved to his country of birth, joining Colchester United in January 1990 to play in the Fourth Division

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. Despite having only spend half a season with the club, he became Colchester's player of the year in 1990.

Colchester was relegated to non-league football at the end of the 1989-90 season and Marmon remained with the club to see the side finish runners-up in the Football Conference

Football Conference

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.

Marmon returned to Germany in 1991, spending a further two seasons in the German second division, now with FC 08 Homburg. He became the hero of the clubs 4-2 extra time German Cup victory over FC Bayern Munich

FC Bayern Munich

FC Bayern Munich , is a German sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional football team, which is the most successful football club in Germany, having won 22 national titles and 15 cups....

 in Munich on 17 August 1991, when he successfully neutralised Bayern's forwards. Dropping out of fully professional football, he remained in south-western Germany and spend time with third division sides FSV Salmrohr

FSV Salmrohr

FSV Salmrohr is a German association football club in the village of Salmrohr, Rhineland-Palatinate. Founded in 1921, the small club has limited resources and has relied largely on local talent, but still managed two decades of play in the tier III Amateur Oberliga Südwest and Regionalliga...

 and, later, SV Elversberg

SV Elversberg

SpVgg 07 Elversberg Saar is a German association football club, located in Spiesen-Elversberg, Saarland.-History:The club was founded in 1907 as FC Germania Elversberg. It was dissolved in 1914, but then re-constituted in 1918 as Sportvereinigung VfB Elversberg, spending a season in the tier-one...

, first becoming player-manager and later manager with the club. Marmon coached Elversberg from December 1996 to April 2001, when he was dismissed, followed by a short spell at Preußen Münster in 2002. He had two more spells with local German southwest amateur clubs as player and manager following his time in Münster.

Since 2011, he is coach of local amateur side SG Schwemlingen/Tünsdorf/Ballern.

Private life

Post full-time football, Marmon, works for a sports article manufacturer, living alternatly in London

London

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 and Merzig

Merzig

Merzig is the capital of the district Merzig-Wadern, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated on the river Saar, approx. 35 km south of Trier, and 35 km northwest of Saarbrücken.-Municipalities:...

, Germany. He got married in 2007.

By profession, he is a qualified sports teacher as well as a physical therapist.

External links

• Neale Marmon at www.coludata.co.uk Neale Marmon at Weltfussball.de Neale Marmon at Fussballdaten.de
  Fussballdaten.de
  fussballdaten.de is a German language website which predominantly collects comprehensive statistics on the top five tiers of German football.The website offers statistics on every Bundesliga and 2. Bundesliga match and team squad since the leagues' foundation in 1963 and 1974, respectively....