Marvin Andrews

Marvin Andrews

Personal information
Full name	Marvin Andrews
Date of birth	(1975-12-22) 22 December 1975
Place of birth	San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Centre half
Club information
Current club	Forfar Athletic
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1992–1994	ECM Motown	?	(?)
1995–1996	San Juan Jabloteh	?	(?)
1996–1997	Malta Carib Alcons	?	(?)
1997–2000	Raith Rovers	63	(5)
2000–2004	Livingston	119	(8)
2004–2006	Rangers	53	(7)
2006–2008	Raith Rovers	41	(8)
2009	Raith Rovers	11	(0)
2009–2010	Hamilton Academical	2	(0)
2009–2010	→ Queen of the South (loan)	2	(0)
2010	Queen of the South	4	(0)
2010–2011	Wrexham	29	(2)
2011–2012	Kirkintilloch Rob Roy	5	(0)
2013	Albion Rovers	13	(2)
2013–	Forfar Athletic	9	(0)
National team‡
1996–	Trinidad and Tobago	101	(10)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21 November 2013. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 August 2009

Marvin Andrews CM (born 22 December 1975) is a Trinidadian football defender at Forfar Athletic.

Andrews's career includes spells at Livingston, with whom he won the Scottish League Cup in 2004, and Rangers, where he won the double of the League Cup and the Scottish Premier League title in 2005.

Between 1996 and 2006 Andrews was a regular for the Trinidad and Tobago national football team, winning 99 caps up to that point. He had stated that he wished for another callup in future,^[1] and earned his 100th cap in a 2–3 defeat to Costa Rica in a FIFA World Cup qualifying match on 6 June 2009.

Club career

Before moving to Scotland, Andrews played with Carib F.C. of Trinidad.

Tall, strong and very good in the air as he have proven to be with a few goals over the years, Raith Rovers sold Andrews for around £50,000 in a multi-player deal. Andrews signed for Livingston on 28 September 2000. Andrews was voted Raith Rovers' "Player of the Day" in the 1999-00 season and, also Livingston "Player of the Year" for the 2003-04 season. On 14 March 2004, Andrews picked up his first major medal when Livingston won the 2003-04 Scottish League Cup by beating Hibernian 2–0 with goals by Derek Lilley and Jamie McAllister.

Andrews signed a two-year deal with Rangers in May 2004 and at the end of his first season with Rangers he scooped the Rangers Player of the Year award, the club also won the Scottish Premier League title on the last day of the season. Also during his time at Rangers he defied medical science by using self healing to overcome a serious cruciate knee ligament injury. It was expected that Andrews would be out of action for up to nine months but he returned after just two weeks looking like there was nothing wrong with him.

He was released by Rangers at the end of the 2005-06 season and was a free agent for a short while, before being re-signed by his former club Raith Rovers on 4 October 2006.

In May 2008, Andrews left Raith Rovers by mutual consent.^[2] He appeared for them as a trialist a little less than a year later, playing for the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 win over East Fife. Andrews stated that he wishes to remain with Rovers for the rest of the season and signed up yet again to Raith Rovers on 11 March 2009. In July 2009, Andrews signed for SPL club Hamilton Academical.^[3]

On 7 December 2009, Dumfries club Queen of the South announced Andrews had signed on a one month loan as cover for the suspended David Lilley and Stephen McKenna.^[4] Manager Gordon Chisholm gave Andrews his Queens debut on 12 December in the 2–1 win away to Morton.^[5] With bad weather causing a series of fixture portponements at Palmerston Park, Andrews played only one other game for Queens during the loan period, in the 2–2 draw away at Partick Thistle.^[6] However Andrews returned to QoS by signing a six-month deal on 29 January 2010.^[7][8]

Andrews was released by Queens at the end of the 2009-10 season.^[9]

He joined Wrexham in August 2010 on a short term contract for the 2010-11 season in the Conference Premier.^[10]

At the end of 2011, he left Wrexham and joined Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region club Kirkintilloch Rob Roy.^[11]

At the start of 2013, he joined Albion Rovers in the Second Division.^[12]

In July 2013, it was confirmed that he had signed for Forfar Athletic.^[13]

International career

Andrews was a key player for the Trinidad and Tobago national team. Having made his international début in 1996, Andrews has joined Angus Eve and Stern John in earning 100 caps for his country. He was a regular member of the national team during their qualification process for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, but a knee injury sustained prior to the opening match against Sweden virtually ruled him out of the tournament. Brent Sancho took his place in the team alongside Dennis Lawrence.^[8]

Career statistics

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Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Scotland			League		Scottish Cup		League Cup		Europe		Total
1997–98	Raith Rovers	Division One	6	0
1998–99		First Division	24	1
1999-00			29	1
2000–01			4	3
2000–01	Livingston	First Division	13	0
2001–02		Premier League	33	3
2002–03			33	4
2003–04			38	0
2004–05	Rangers	Premier League	30	4
2005–06			23	3
2006–07	Raith Rovers	Second Division	22	4
2007–08
Total	Scotland		255	23
Career total			255	23

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	10 July 1997	Antigua Recreation Ground, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda	Jamaica	1–1	Draw	1997 Caribbean Cup
2.	13 July 1997	Antigua Recreation Ground, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda	Saint Kitts and Nevis	4–0	Win	1997 Caribbean Cup
3.	11 June 1999	Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	Haiti	6–1	Win	1999 Caribbean Cup
4.	4 March 2000	Hasley Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	Netherlands Antilles	5–0	Win	2002 World Cup Q.
5.	18 March 2000	Stadion Ergilio Hato, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles	Netherlands Antilles	1–1	Draw	2002 World Cup Q.
6.	7 May 2000	Hasley Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	Haiti	3–1	Win	2002 World Cup Q.
7.	25 February 2001	Truman Bodden Stadium, George Town, Cayman Islands	Cayman Islands	0–3	Win	Friendly
8.	25 April 2001	Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago	Mexico	1–1	Draw	2002 World Cup Q.
9.	13 June 2004	Estadio Olímpico Juan Pablo Duarte, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Dominican Republic	0–2	Win	2006 World Cup Q.
10.	9 July 2005	Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida, United States	Panama	2–2	Draw	2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup
Correct as of 13 August 2009

Honours

Livingston F.C.

• Scottish League Cup: 2003–04

Rangers

• Scottish Premier League: 1

2005

• Scottish League Cup: 1

2005

Raith Rovers

• Scottish Second Division: 1

2008–09

Religion

A devout Christian, Andrews also practices faith healing at the "Zion Praise Centre International", a church based in Kirkcaldy which is described as being Pentecostal.^[16] Andrews claims his faith was largely inspired by former Livingston teammate Francisco Javier Sánchez Broto.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2004–05 season (his first season with Rangers) he injured the cruciate ligament in his knee while playing. The injury was supposed to keep him off the field for months but Marvin Andrews was only off for one Scottish League Cup match and was back the next week as he believed God would keep him fit, a move which worried medical staff and supporters alike. Andrews' leg and form held up for the rest of the season, which saw his first SPL medal but the same injury eventually caught up with him, ruling him out of Trinidad And Tobago's World Cup 2006 campaign. When Andrews scored for Rangers, or won the Man of the Match at Ibrox Stadium, the song "I'm a Believer" by The Monkees was played.

In February 2006 he controversially labelled homosexuals as "an abomination" and said, "There is a demon in their spirits, their spirits are ill. But God can help them through his church and anyone who doubts this can check the Bible".^[17] Marvin Andrews then, in an interview with the Guardian in October 2007, sought to clarify his beliefs (claiming that what was written in the 2006 article was "a misquote and it was taken out of context") saying that he didn't have anything against homosexuals themselves, rather that it was homosexual acts that he believed were against God's will.^[18]

After signing for Queen of the South F.C. in December 2009 and being told about Queen of the South being the 'Only team in the Bible', Andrews described this as, "Most interesting".^[19]

References

External links

• Marvin Andrews career stats at Soccerbase

v t e Forfar Athletic F.C. – current squad GK Douglas GK Hill GK Salmon GK Soutar DF Andrews DF Baxter DF I. Campbell DF Dods DF Dunlop DF Færø MF Malcolm DF McCulloch MF R. Campbell MF Dale MF M. Fotheringham MF Fusco MF Gibson MF Kader MF Malin MF McCabe MF McCluskey MF Reid FW Hilson FW McManus FW Swankie FW Templeman Manager: Dick Campbell

v t e Trinidad and Tobago squad – 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup 1 Hislop 2 Charles 3 A. John 4 Andrews 5 Sancho 6 Lawrence 7 Birchall 8 Eve 9 Whitley 10 Scotland 11 Edwards 12 Rahim 13 Glen 14 S. John 15 Jones 16 Pierre 18 Theobald 19 Spann 20 Samuel 21 Jack 22 Williams 23 Wolfe 24 Gray Coach: Beenhakker

v t e Trinidad and Tobago squad – 2006 FIFA World Cup 1 Hislop 2 Cox 3 A. John 4 Andrews 5 Sancho 6 Lawrence 7 Birchall 8 Gray 9 Whitley 10 Latapy 11 Edwards 12 Samuel 13 Glen 14 S. John 15 Jones 16 Wise 17 Charles 18 Theobald 19 Yorke (c) 20 Scotland 21 Jack 22 Ince 23 Wolfe Coach: Beenhakker

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Persondata
Name	Andrews, Marvin
Alternative names
Short description	Trinidad and Tobago footballer
Date of birth	22 December 1975
Place of birth	San Juan, Trinidad
Date of death
Place of death