Dwight Yorke

1988/89 Signal Hill (TTO)

1989/98 Aston Villa (ENG) 287 games, 98 goals

(English Premier League: 231 games, 73 goals)

(English Cup: 24 games, 14 goals)

(English League Cup: 22 games, 8 goals)

(UEFA Cup: 9 games, 2 goals)

(Full Members Cup: 1 game, 1 goal)

1998/2002 Manchester UTD (ENG) 152 games, 65 goals

(English Premier League: 95 games, 47 goals)

(English Cup: 11 games, 3 goals)

(English League Cup: 3 games, 2 goals)

(Champions League: 36 games, 11 goals)

(Charity Shield: 3 games)

(UEFA Super Cup: 1 game)

(Club World Cup: 2 games, 1 goal)

2002/04 Blackburn Rovers (ENG) 74 games, 19 goals

(English Premier League: 60 games, 12 goals)

(English Cup: 4 games, 3 goals)

(English League Cup: 5 games, 4 goals)

(UEFA Cup: 5 games)

2004/05 Birmingham City (ENG) 16 games, 2 goals

(English Premier League: 13 games, 2 goals)

(English Cup: 1 game)

(English League Cup: 2 games)

2005/06 Sydney FC (AUS) 21 games, 7 goals

2006/09 Sunderland (ENG) 62 games, 6 goals

(English Premier League: 27 games, 1 goal)

(English Premier League: 32 games, 5 goals)

(English Cup: 2 games)

(English League Cup: 1 game)

With the National Team :

72 caps, 19 goals

(Friendly matches: 18 caps, 6 goals)

(World Cup qualifiers: 45 caps, 9 goals)

(World Cup: 3 caps)

(Gold Cup: 3 caps, 1 goal)

(Caribbean Cup of Nations: 3 caps, 3 goals)

1st cap: March 19, 1989 against Paraguay (2-2)

Last cap: August 12, 2009 against Salvador (1-0)

Dwight Eversley Yorke

Born November 3, 1971 in Canaan (TTO)

Trinidadian, Striker, Right-winger, 1m75

Nickname: "The smilling assassin"

Dwight Yorke was born on November 3, 1971 in Canaan, Trinidad and Tobago. He was discovered in 1989 by the manager of Aston Villa at the time, Graham Taylor. He therefore had a trial in the English club and was finally recruited permanently in 1990. He played his first Premier League match in March 1990 against Crystal Palace.

With Aston Villa, he won 2 English League Cups and finished twice vice-champion of England in 1990 and 1993. Far from being a match to mark, he is a striker who weighs on the defenses, in particular by his desire on the field, he had a great determination and an ability to sublimate himself in complicated moments for his teams.

In total, he played 9 years at Aston Villa, playing 287 matches for 98 goals scored and a star status in England. Fast, good finisher and especially lucid in small spaces, able to combine with his teammates, he caught the eye of Alex Ferguson and Manchester United whom he joined in 1998.

Becoming a key player of this Manchester United team, he then took Teddy Sheringham's place in the hierarchy and won 3 Premier Leagues consecutively. But the 1998/99 season will be the most legendary, the player forms with Andy Cole one of the best duos in the history of the Premier League. The player slams a season with 29 goals and 19 assists in 53 matches.

In the Champions League, he has one of the best campaigns in the history of the competition, he scores 8 goals and delivers 8 assists in 11 matches played. Against Inter in the quarter-finals, he scored twice, then in the semi-finals in the second leg, he scored 1 goal and provided 1 assist.

That year, he won the Champions League, Intercontinental Cup, Premier League and FA Cup. He was then at the top of European football. Finishing as both the top scorer in the Premier League and the Champions League. He was voted best player in the Premier League in the 1998/99 season.

Unfortunately for him, the arrival of world superstar Ruud Van Nistelrooy would push the player towards the exit who left the club in 2002. He then signed for Blackburn Rovers where he was reunited with Andy Cole, who had also left Manchester United. With his two stars, Blackburn reached Europe.

In 2004, he left the club and went on to play for Birmingham City, Sydney FC and Sunderland. He finally ended his career in 2009, at the age of 37. His international career spanned 20 years, he was an international for his country in 1989 and 2009, bringing his total number of matches to 72 official matches, but with more than 100 matches played unofficially. He notably snatched a historic qualification for the 2006 World Cup, his country being eliminated in the group stages of the competition.

- Top scorer in the English Premier League in 1999 (18 goals) (Manchester UTD)

- Top scorer in the Champions League in 1999 (8 goals) (Manchester UTD)

- Voted Premier League Player of the Season in 1999

- Voted Trinidad and Tobago Footballer of the Year in 2005 and 2006

- Named to the PFA Team of the Year in the English Premier League in 1999

- Received the Joe Marston Medal (A-League Final Player of the Year) in 2006

- Inducted into the Sydney FC Hall of Fame in 2015

- Voted Trinidad and Tobago Sports Personality of the Year by the Olympic Committee in 1998

- Received the Silver Medal of the Order of the Humming Bird of Trinidad and Tobago in 1993 for services rendered to the nation

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