Marvin Hamilton-Omole (born 8 October 1988), commonly known as Marvin Hamilton, is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he represented the Sri Lanka national team. Hamilton began his career with Gillingham and has subsequently gone on to play for a number of non-League clubs in the south of England, as well as spending brief spells playing in Cyprus, Australia and the USA.

Career

Club career

After junior trials with

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, Hamilton also played for Waltham Forest and Ridgeway Rovers before joining Gillingham as a youth player in July 2005. He signed as a professional on a one-year contract on the eve of the 2007–08 season and made his first-team debut as a substitute in an away defeat to Luton Town on 25 August 2007. After a change of manager and a loan spell at Folkestone Invicta, he was released by Gillingham on 31 March 2008 and joined Dover Athletic. Hamilton started the 2008–09 season as a trialist at

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and Lincoln City before signing for Cypriot side

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in January 2010. Hamilton played for Hemel Hempstead Town and then joined Conference South club

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on 24 February 2012. Hamilton then had a brief spell playing in Australia, first in the Victoria Premier for Southern Stars (now known as Dingley Stars) before moving in the July 2013 transfer window to Albany Creek in the Brisbane Premier League. After a trial at Chelmsford City, Hamilton joined

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club Ware, where he scored the league goal of the month in April 2014. Hamilton returned to The Sports for the 2014–15 season before being released in February 2015 and signing for Whitehawk until the end of the season. After a spell playing in the US, Hamilton signed briefly for

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on 6 August 2015 and then

side

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before re-joining

for the third time on 30 October. Hamilton then re-signed for Whitehawk for the start of the 2016–17 season. He re-signed for Whitehawk for the start of the 2019–20 season but announced he was leaving at the end of the curtailed 2020–21 season, to pursue opportunities in Sri Lanka. In September 2022, Hamilton signed for Hythe Town,but missed the Isthmian League South East Division play-off final defeat against his former club Whitehawk through injury. He then left Reachfields to sign for F.C. Beresiin the

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Senior Division (step 7).

International career

Hamilton was eligible to represent

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and Sri Lanka. He was first called up to the Sri Lankan national team, for which he qualifies through his mother, on 7 May 2019. This was for the upcoming FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 & AFC Asian Cup 2023 Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 1. However, he could not make it to the Sri Lankan squad at that time due to certain formalities and procedures being uncompleted. He played in a friendly warmup match against

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in 2018. In May 2021, he received a call-up from the Football Federation of Sri Lanka to play in the

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against

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and

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. He made his senior international debut on 5 June 2021, in a 3–2 defeat against Lebanon. Then on 4 October, Hamilton scored his first goal against

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in a 3–2 defeat at the

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International goals

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Marvin 1988 births Living people Footballers from Leytonstone Sri Lankan men's footballers Sri Lanka men's international footballers English men's footballers Sri Lankan expatriate men's footballers Sri Lankan people of Nigerian descent English sportspeople of Nigerian descent English people of Sri Lankan descent Men's association football defenders Gillingham F.C. players Folkestone Invicta F.C. players Dover Athletic F.C. players APEP FC players Hemel Hempstead Town F.C. players Eastbourne Borough F.C. players Albany Creek Excelsior FC players Whitehawk F.C. players Dartford F.C. players VCD Athletic F.C. players Margate F.C. players Ware F.C. players Haringey Borough F.C. players Burgess Hill Town F.C. players Sittingbourne F.C. players Hythe Town F.C. players English Football League players Cypriot First Division players Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus National League (English football) players