Yorke on future after W/Cup

“NEVER write me off,” TT football star and national team captain Dwight Yorke said as he faced hundreds of adoring fans in Tobago yesterday.

The future of the world-renowned Tobago-born professional footballer remains undecided at this stage.

“Obviously, all my focus right now is on the World Cup. I’ll have to sit down and recount after the World Cup and put my head around and talk to people in and around the game, whom I respect,” Yorke said.

“You never know with me. But the one thing I know for sure, you should never write me off,” he added.

Unlike his longtime friend Russell Latapy, the question of retirement does not now arise. Yorke, who currently plays for Sydney FC in Australia, was non-committal as to whether or not he was ready to bow out of the game.

“I am not saying that (I would not retire), but I think after the World Cup, after all my effort has gone into that, I have a few weeks off and I will sit down and talk to a few people and my family and make a decision one way or the other.”

Yorke was virtually mobbed by his hometown fans in an emotion-filled experience at the stadium which carries his name, at Bacolet, just east of Scarborough, when the Soca Warriors visited Tobago as part of the national celebratory send-off to the World Cup in Germany which kicks off on June 9.