Marshelon Pourier, right back of Be Quick, was promoted with Bonaire to the B group of the Nations League.
Note that after the 0-4 defeat of the national football team at home against Saint-Martin, there was a party on the Antillean island. Because thanks to two previous victories over Anguilla, the last of which came last Saturday, Bonaire finished as the best number 2 in the group and the island was promoted to group B of the Nations League of the CONCACAF, the Football Association of North and Central America and the Caribbean.. With Be Quick player Marshelon Pourier as a rock.
Debut against Saint-Martin
Pourier’s (20) international career has gone very quickly. The young right back of Be Quick, who was born in Delfzijl and grew up there, was asked in August to play for the country where his father Marshall comes from.
Pourier made his debut in the away match against Saint-Martin, the French side of the island of Sint Maarten, the team against which Bonaire also ended this year of the Nations League on Tuesday. That first match was lost 2-1 by Bonaire.
Already in his second match, against Anguilla, Pourier scored his first goal for Bonaire. In his third international match he was promoted to captain and after his fourth international match, at home against Saint-Martin, there was celebration: Bonaire finished second in Group G of the Nations League.
“Thanks to those two victories over Anguilla, we are one of the best numbers 2,” Pourier says laughing on the phone from Bonaire. “Because Aruba won against the Cayman Islands, that team can no longer overtake us. So we have been promoted to group B. Great, right?”
Teammate of ADO player Van der Sande
This time Pourier was not made captain by national coach Rilove Janga, because the first captain of the team, Rogyear Michiel, was back. “I am a reserve captain,” laughs Pourier, who has been a teammate of ADO Den Haag striker Jort van der Sande for three matches at Bonaire.
The Den Bosch-born winger, who made things quite difficult for FC Groningen in the Euroborg in mid-September – ADO won 1-0 against FC – lived on Bonaire from the age of two to seven and is therefore allowed to play for the national football team. “Jort is really an asset,” says Pourier. “He brings insight and footballing ability. He makes the team play better.”
‘There was a band and there was beer’
After the 0-4 against Saint-Martin, there were exuberant celebrations, says Pourier. “There was a band and it was a lot of fun. We mainly drank beer, no Caribbean drinks. But it was a nice party.”
On Friday, Pourier will fly back to the Netherlands and join Be Quick, which will host MASV in the fourth division at the Esserberg on Sunday. “That will take some time to switch,” the back, who was deployed as a central defender by Janga at Bonaire in the last games, is already looking ahead. “From a great party to a team that is not doing so well. We have to quickly reverse that.”
Pourier’s next international match is not scheduled until next autumn.