Dwight Yorke off to Australia

By European Football
April 18 2005

Former Man Utd, Villa and Blackburn striker Dwight Yorke is off to Australian outfit Sydney FC in the summer. Yorke has flopped at Birmingham and a change of scenery will do him the world of good. Sydney FC announced the two year deal on the web site www.abc.net.au:

“We're just absolutely over the moon that he's decided that this is where he wants to spend the next two years off his football career,” stated Sydney chief executive Andy Harper.

“He's been around, and he's certainly learnt from the best on how to win football matches.”

“And more important than that for us is just the individual football package that he brings.”

“He's a high-quality football player and we're very much looking forward to him being on Sydney FC's books.”

“When he (Yorke) arrived last week for his three-day visit to have a look at the Sydney FC set-up and meet the people, he just generated enormous media interest then,”

“When he puts pen to paper for Sydney FC and starts work with us he will have an enormous impact off the field.”

“Sydney FC is striving to be what the Hyundai A-League set itself out to achieve, and that is to be something new and fresh and catch the imagination andthe attention of the public.”

“A player like Dwight Yorke is certainly, we feel, important in that strategy. I think if all goes well from here he will have an enormous impact on the Australian sporting landscape.”

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