Dwight Eversley Yorke (* November 3rd 1971 in Canaan ) is a former Soccer player the end Trinidad and Tobago . The 72-time national player became known as faster and more tricky striker from Aston Villa , the top club in the late 1990s Manchester United changed and there after his League Cup Success 1996 with “Villa” - next to three English championships ( 1999 , 2000 , 2001 ) and one FA Cup trophy (1999) - im 1999 the Champions League won. After further stations in Blackburn (2002-2004), Birmingham (2004-2005) and Sydney (2005–2006) left the “left foot” last, somewhat withdrawn in midfield acting, his active career until the summer of 2009 with Sunderland AFC to end. Due to his habit of smiling steadily during a game, he was called "The Smiling Assassin" because of his scoring danger.
The great preservation of expectations that former United striker stars also like Denis Law and George Best propagated - Best even described it as better compared to the one who had recently migrated Eric Cantona -, said Yorke straight away. In the second game he shot against Charlton Athletic the first of a total of 18 league goals. With this yield he was together with in the end Michael Owen and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink even the best Premier League scorer of the 1998/99 season and with nine goals in six consecutive games, some in impressive form. in the Champions League semi-final against Juventus Turin he was also one of the scorers; he was also in the final eleven, the FC Bayern Munich defeated 2-1. With the additional double success in the English championship and in FA Cup the "triple" was the most successful year in Yorke's active career. When choosing to England's Footballer of the Year he failed in the journalist or player selection only just because of the French David Ginola , for this he was granted a place in the " Allstar Team " of the Premier League. [5] In the following two years Yorke won two more English championships, where he was at the side of his strike partner in the 1999/2000 season Andrew Cole and or Teddy Sheringham surpassed the previous year's marks with 20 league goals and 29 competitive game goals in total. [6]
Only when Sheringham was in better shape in the 2000/01 season and so was the Norwegian Ole Gunnar Solskjaer As the pressure increased, Yorke found himself on the bench more often, which in turn sparked rumors of an upcoming high-pay transfer. [7] The signs increased when Yorke was rarely used in the 2001/02 season, with coach Alex Ferguson in addition to the numerous alternatives available to him on the attack positions - Ruud van Nistelrooy was added - allegedly also Yorke's relationship with the British model Katie Price and the media hype it caused was a thorn in the side. Yorke shot against in November 2001 Leicester City his only goal of the season and after failed talks with the Middlesbrough FC in January 2002 he moved to the in the summer of the same year for a transfer fee of two million pounds Blackburn Rovers .