Dwight Yorke
Yorke in August 2015
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Dwight Eversley Yorke | ||
| Date of birth | 3 November 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Canaan, Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
| Playing position |
Forward Midfielder |
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| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1989 | Signal Hill Comprehensive School | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1998 | Aston Villa | 232 | (73) |
| 1998–2002 | Manchester United | 96 | (52) |
| 2002–2004 | Blackburn Rovers | 60 | (12) |
| 2004–2005 | Birmingham City | 13 | (2) |
| 2005–2006 | Sydney FC | 21 | (7) |
| 2006–2009 | Sunderland | 59 | (6) |
| Total | 479 | (147) | |
| National team | |||
| 1989–2009 | Trinidad and Tobago | 74 | (19) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2009–2010 | Trinidad and Tobago (assistant) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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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).
Yorke was first discovered by Graham Taylor, at the time the Aston Villa manager, on a tour of the West Indies in 1989. Yorke appeared in a team that played a friendly match against Aston Villa, Taylor was impressed and offered Yorke a trial at Villa. Yorke was subsequently given a permanent contract and he made his First Division debut for Aston Villa against Crystal Palace on 24 March 1990: Crystal Palace won the game 1–0. During his time with Aston Villa, from 1989 to 1998, Yorke played initially as a right winger until the 1995–96 season, he then switched to centre forward and quickly established himself as one of the Premier League's top strikers.
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