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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=caption align=middle>Dwight Yorke</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Trinidad and Tobago national football team captain Dwight Yorke can now officially claim to be a Manchester United legend.
Yorke, a former record signing for the England Premier League giant and one of football's most popular clubs, was listed 43rd out of Manchester United's top 50 players of all time.
The list was compiled by United for the recently-released Manchester United Opus, which is a limited edition 850-page book on the "Red Devils". The Opus costs 3,000 pounds (TT$37,056.50) and only 10,000 copies were printed.
Sir Bobby Charlton, a 1966 England World Cup star and one of Europe's top goal scoring midfielders, topped United's all-time playing list followed by the late and gifted Northern Ireland winger George Best.
Yorke's present Sunderland coach and former teammate and midfielder, Roy Keane, placed third, while enigmatic Frenchman, Eric Cantona, was seventh. </DIV><DIV class=texte>
Yorke's United career lasted roughly three years but he is fondly remembered for his part in the club's historic treble of titles in his debut season in 1998/99.
Yorke was the top scorer and most valuable player when United won England Premiership and FA honours as well as the European Champions League crown-an unprecedented honour in Britain.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was knighted in honour of that successful season.
The Tobago-born striker, whose purchase was initially met with howls of derision and ridicule from the British press, was one of 12 players from that treble squad who made the elite list.
Apart from Keane and Yorke, goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel (8th), midfielders Ryan Giggs (9th), Paul Scholes (10th), David Beckham (14th), defenders Gary Neville (18th), Dennis Irwin (20th), Jaap Stam (45th) and strikers Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (22nd), Andy Cole (41st) and Teddy Sheringham (50th) were also members of the treble squad.
England attacker Wayne Rooney (11th), Dutch striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy (15th), Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo (39th) and English central defender Rio Ferdinand (48th) complete the list of active players who were honoured.
Giggs, Scholes, Neville, Solskjaer, Rooney, Ronaldo and Ferdinand are still United players.</DIV>
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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=caption align=middle>Dwight Yorke</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Trinidad and Tobago national football team captain Dwight Yorke can now officially claim to be a Manchester United legend. Yorke, a former record signing for the England Premier League giant and one of football's most popular clubs, was listed 43rd out of Manchester United's top 50 players of all time.
The list was compiled by United for the recently-released Manchester United Opus, which is a limited edition 850-page book on the "Red Devils". The Opus costs 3,000 pounds (TT$37,056.50) and only 10,000 copies were printed.
Sir Bobby Charlton, a 1966 England World Cup star and one of Europe's top goal scoring midfielders, topped United's all-time playing list followed by the late and gifted Northern Ireland winger George Best.
Yorke's present Sunderland coach and former teammate and midfielder, Roy Keane, placed third, while enigmatic Frenchman, Eric Cantona, was seventh. </DIV><DIV class=texte>
Yorke's United career lasted roughly three years but he is fondly remembered for his part in the club's historic treble of titles in his debut season in 1998/99.
Yorke was the top scorer and most valuable player when United won England Premiership and FA honours as well as the European Champions League crown-an unprecedented honour in Britain.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was knighted in honour of that successful season.
The Tobago-born striker, whose purchase was initially met with howls of derision and ridicule from the British press, was one of 12 players from that treble squad who made the elite list.
Apart from Keane and Yorke, goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel (8th), midfielders Ryan Giggs (9th), Paul Scholes (10th), David Beckham (14th), defenders Gary Neville (18th), Dennis Irwin (20th), Jaap Stam (45th) and strikers Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (22nd), Andy Cole (41st) and Teddy Sheringham (50th) were also members of the treble squad.
England attacker Wayne Rooney (11th), Dutch striker Ruud Van Nistelrooy (15th), Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo (39th) and English central defender Rio Ferdinand (48th) complete the list of active players who were honoured.
Giggs, Scholes, Neville, Solskjaer, Rooney, Ronaldo and Ferdinand are still United players.</DIV>
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