Warriors captain salutes Jack

TRINIDAD and Tobago football team captain Dwight Yorke, in an interview with BBC Radio 1Xtra has paid tribute to FIFA Vice President Jack Warner for his longstanding commitment to his  country’s efforts to reach the pinnacle of world football. Yorke, along with his teammates met with Warner at the Renaissance Hotel on Tuesday.  He said he had no problems with Warner despite the recent serious allegations concerning the sale of World Cup tickets in his homeland which had drawn the wrath of FIFA of which he is a vice-president. “He’s just an excited man and rightly so,” Yorke said.

“He’s put so much into our football over the years. He’s tried over so many years in trying to qualify for the World Cup. We came close in 1990 by missing out by one point and here 17 years down the line he’s still at the front of our Federation and vice president of FIFA and now that we are going I can understand why he’s excited about the whole thing,” he said. The double goalscorer against Iceland was asked to comment on Warner’s reaction to TT’s qualification for the World Cup and his comments at a press conference on Monday about England being in for a possible shock on June 20. The former Manchester United forward has been the target of the media in London and was in some more warm company yesterday morning as close friend Brian Lara arrived to join Russell Latapy and the rest of the TT contingent at the Renaissance Hotel at Heathrow.

“It’s been a pleasing result for us,” Yorke told TTFF Media. “It shows clearly that we can match up with the good teams. It definitely gives us a good indication of where we are at this stage now and hopefully we can continue to get better and work harder as we get close to the World Cup,” Yorke said. “Credit must go out to the entire team and the management staff because we know  it was not going to be easy to get our act together for this match after such a long time apart since the Bahrain match but we fought that off and we were able to give an encouraging performance today and I was just simply happy to make that kind of contribution with the two goals,” he said.