RSL names Tyrone Marshall as new assistant coach


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SANDY — Real Salt Lake used the post-holiday break to fill several holes in its organization.

First item on the list for 2015: assistant coach.

Check, and done.

MLS veteran Tyrone Marshall has been named an assistant coach on second-year head coach Jeff Cassar’s staff, the team announced Tuesday.

Marshall will primarily coach the defenders and fill the absence of Craig Waibel, whom the club named technical director last month. Waibel and new assistant general manager Elliott Fall help fill the void left by former general manager Garth Lagerwey, who was introduced as GM and club president by the Seattle Sounders on Tuesday.

“My family and I are very excited about the opportunity to join the RSL organization,” Marshall said in a statement. “The direction and vision that Jeff Cassar has created within the team is something I aspired to be associated with once given the opportunity to return to MLS.”

The 40-year-old Marshall spent 15 years in MLS after the Colorado Rapids drafted him in the first round of the 1998 MLS college draft out of Florida International University. He was quickly traded to the now-defunct Miami Fusion, where he played with Cassar, current RSL assistant coach Andy Williams, and a pair of promising young talents in Kyle Beckerman and Nick Rimando. He played with Waibel in 2002, when the L.A. Galaxy won the Supporters’ Shield and MLS Cup titles, then also claimed a double in 2005 with the Galaxy’s U.S. Open Cup and MLS Cup title wins.

Marshall also spent time with Toronto FC and Seattle before retiring as a player in 2012 as a member of the Rapids. He has spent the past two seasons as head coach and technical director of the Derby City Rovers, a Louisville-based team in the fourth-division Premier Development League.

“We’re really fortunate to add somebody like Tyrone to our staff,” Cassar said in a statement. “His character is going to be excellent for our team and especially our defenders. He had a very, very good career in MLS and he’s a young, hungry coach who wants to prove himself. That’s the kind of staff I wanted to have. With us moving Craig Waibel into the technical director role, it was important that I brought somebody in that held the same standards that Craig did, and Tyrone fits that bill completely.”

Marshall also played with Williams on the Jamaican national team, completing a 10-year international career with 83 caps that included several stretches when he donned the captain’s armband.

Marshall’s role as assistant coach begins immediately, and he inherits a defensive backline undergoing significant transition with the departures of veteran defenders Nat Borchers and Chris Wingert and the re-acquisition of central defender Jamison Olave.

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