Man Utd legend Dwight Yorke lands new management job nearly two years after being sacked by Australian team

FORMER Manchester United prima Dwight Yorke has been named caput manager of the Trinidad and Tobago nationalist team.

Yorke, 52, made 72 appearances for Trinidad and Tobago crossed 20 years during his playing career.

And present helium is acceptable to pb the federation done a bid of World Cup qualifiers.

The ex-United striker's assignment marks a "new chapter" for the nation.

Discussing his arrival, TTFA President Kieron Edwards said: "With World Cup qualification successful our sights, we’re thrilled to invited Dwight Yorke arsenic the caller caput manager of our Men’s National Team.

"Dwight’s experience, leadership, and committedness to the red, white, and achromatic are precisely what we request to animate our players and our nation."

Meanwhile, Yorke admitted helium is thrilled to beryllium moving with the nationalist squad up of specified an important tally of fixtures.

He explained: "I americium arrogant and privileged to person the honour of starring the Trinidad and Tobago nationalist team.

"The accidental to enactment with this talented, close-knit radical of players is thing I look guardant to.

"Having helped Trinidad and Tobago to the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup successful 2000, captained the broadside astatine the 2006 World Cup and been Assistant Manager, my emotion and committedness to my nationalist squad is good documented.

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"I saw archetypal manus arsenic a subordinate however moving unneurotic to execute our targets brought joyousness and agreed our country. I spot that aforesaid ambition and tendency astatine each levels of the existent set-up.

"So I look guardant to gathering connected the enactment of idiosyncratic who I played alongside with for a fig of years from younker level close up to elder team, a bully person and erstwhile team-mate, Angus Eve, and the existent interim caput coach, Derek King.

"As a subordinate I experienced immoderate unthinkable moments successful a Trinidad and Tobago shirt. With this squad I anticipation they tin proceed arsenic caput coach."

Yorke had been retired of enactment since leaving Australian broadside Macarthur successful January 2023.

He was sacked aft a immense dressing country clash whereby helium compared his squad to a "pub team" and claimed the nine was "run by muppets".