For­mer head coach of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s men’s na­tion­al foot­ball team, Dwight Yorke has been giv­en a lack­lus­tre rat­ing by pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA), Kieron Ed­wards dur­ing his two years at the helm.

Yorke was ap­point­ed head coach back in No­vem­ber 2024 and af­ter fail­ing to guide T&T to the 2026 FI­FA World Cup, the TTFA part­ed ways with the for­mer Man­ches­ter Unit­ed strik­er by mu­tu­al agree­ment ef­fec­tive Feb­ru­ary 28.

Dur­ing the CON­CA­CAF Qual­i­fiers, T&T won just one of their six match­es and fin­ished third in Group B be­hind Ja­maica and even­tu­al win­ners Cu­ra­cao.

Speak­ing dur­ing an in­ter­view on i95.5 FM on Thurs­day, Ed­wards was asked to rate Yorke’s per­for­mance as head coach dur­ing his 27 months in charge.

“There are dif­fer­ent as­pects that I judge in­di­vid­u­als on, but if you com­pile every­thing, for not qual­i­fy­ing for the World Cup I would give him a five [out of 10].

“I feel progress was made in some ar­eas, but in oth­er ar­eas I didn’t think that we made much progress. There were some is­sues in scor­ing goals, and I think that’s across the board, even when you look at the Un­der-20’s and the Un­der-17’s qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the World Cup as well, we’re see­ing that we’re lack­ing in that area tremen­dous­ly,” Ed­wards point­ed out.

“Some years ago we were lack­ing de­fen­sive­ly, but I think that we shored up those po­si­tions, but a true goal scor­er at all lev­els is some­thing that we tru­ly need to fo­cus on as an FA and as coach­es.”

(CMC)