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Former Captain of the Trinidad and Tobago Football team Clayton Morris believes Dwight Yorke will get the respect from the players as he takes up the new role as Coach of the national team. Morris threw his support behind Yorke who he thinks will need proper backing to get the results needed to take T&T to another World Cup.

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00:00Well, more joy follows Dwight York's appointment as head coach of the National Football Team.
00:05This time, former Strike Squad captain Clayton Morris has expressed his praise to one of
00:09his former teammates, even as he remembered the journey of the Soka Warriors, including
00:13their attempt to qualify for the World Cup and when they finally accomplished it in 2006.
00:1918 years later, Dwight York, who was a player in the 1989 Strike Squad and a player and
00:26captain of the 2005 Soka Warriors, is now selected the head coach of the Trinidad and
00:34Tobago men's football team.
00:38This is a great achievement for an individual who has played his trade as a player and coach
00:43with distinction internationally.
00:47To answer your question, Sergio, I'm honored to be in the land of the living to witness
00:52this moment.
00:53And I want to congratulate Dwight on this coming from the Strike Squad family.
00:57We want to wish him all the best in his new role as head coach of the Trinidad and Tobago
01:02National Football Team.
01:04He believes York will get the respect he deserves.
01:07I think he will get total respect, but again, it is important for him now to build that
01:14foundation and give them that confidence in him as a coach because they will know a lot
01:20more about him as a player and not really as a coach.
01:25So he now has to bring that level of experience, you know, from what he learned from the coaches
01:33that he was under and then the experience he had where he went and he did his coaching
01:38license and the experience he had, as you said, out in Australia and what have you.
01:43York is known for maintaining a good physique.
01:46Will he impart his discipline on the players?
01:48Well, definitely.
01:49You know, it's always good and if I can reflect in our time, when we were given the opportunity
01:55to be coached by Everett Garley-Cummings, everything he asked us to do, he was physically
02:01doing it.
02:02So with Dwight at this level, as I know, Dwight's fitness is key.
02:06He will be able to demonstrate everything as a top player in the world today to these
02:12guys.
02:13So that alone will be a plus on his part.
02:15Morris believes York's versatility as a player will be one of his biggest assets.
02:19Knowing Dwight, Dwight is a complete footballer.
02:22And if I could say my own part, as a defender, I understand how to coach attacking players
02:31because as a defender, you must be able to read the plays and it's the same thing as
02:35an attacker.
02:36You would know the weaknesses and the strengths of defense.
02:39So Dwight will be able to deliver on both ends, right, given the experience and as you
02:44said, he played in a tap for Manchester, Aston Villa prior to Manchester.
02:51And then when he came into South Korea, he dropped back into the midfield and that central
02:56midfield role where again, that calls for a lot of knowledge, understanding, composure
03:02and leadership.
03:03To be successful, he added that York would need to get the support necessary from the
03:07TTFA.
03:08We would look at the coach, right, we would just see the coach out there.
03:12But there's a lot of things in the back room that the coach needs that will help him to
03:18do his job.
03:19And one of the things is administratively, you know, they have to put the pieces in place.
03:27They have to have the logistics, right?
03:29The players also have to have to play their role and coming back to the administration,
03:35they have to make sure that the players being treated and being given the basic things that
03:40would allow them to want to be part of the national team.
03:44November continues to be a historic month for TNT.
03:46It's left now for York to score what would be another big goal to coach Trinidad and
03:51Tobago's national football team to a World Cup.
03:54Sergio Dufour, TV6 Sport.
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