Sounders defender Chad Marshall is not comfortable in front of camera.
The veteran center back actively avoids the lens’ glare, sidestepping media-relations staffers with agility impressive for his size. Finally persuaded to take a few questions, Marshall often affixes reporters with a perturbed, blue-eyed stare.
Marshall isn’t bashful – his locker room antics described below are evidence enough of that. It’s more that he just doesn’t get what all the hubbub is about.
“I’m not like a talk-about-me kind of guy,” Seattle’s towering 6-foot-4 defender said this week. “It mostly stems from that. I’m just not super comfortable talking about myself.