Dwight Yorke - TheSportsDB.com

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Dwight Yorke

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Born
1971 (49 years old)

Birth Place

Canaan, Tobago

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Dwight Eversley Yorke CM (born 3 November 1971) is a Tobagonian former football player. Throughout his club career, he played for Aston Villa, Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Birmingham City, Sydney, and Sunderland, mainly as a forward, between 1988 and 2009. He was the assistant manager of the Trinidad and Tobago national team until the completion of the qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

At international level, Yorke represented Trinidad and Tobago on 74 occasions between 1989 and 2009, scoring 19 goals. He helped his nation reach the semi-finals of the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup, and also helped Trinidad and Tobago to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time in its history, later representing his national side in the final tournament in 2006. Along with Russell Latapy and Pat Jennings, Yorke holds the record number of participations in different World Cup competitions, including qualifying stages – six in total (1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010).

Career Honours

2006-2007 Sunderland		2005-2006 Sydney FC		2000-2001 Man United		1999-2000 Man United		1999 Man United
1998-1999 Man United		1998-1999 Man United		1998-1999 Man United		1998-1999 Aston Villa		1998-1999 Aston Villa