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'Unfair' Man Utd's Yorke quits Trinidad national team
Updated: Thursday June 14, 2001 3:49 PM
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) -- Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke, banned for Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Honduras, has quit the Trinidad and Tobago squad, his agent said on Thursday. Yorke took the decision after losing his appeal against being banned by the Trinidad and Tobago federation [TTFF] for missing a warmup friendly away to Panama on Sunday. Yorke's local agent Tim Nafziger said: "After practice I told Dwight what happened and he went up to [coach] Ian Porterfield and [manager] Neville Chance and shook their hands and thanked them for the time together. "But he is not going to be at practice again; he has made up his mind that he will not play again, he thinks that in the circumstances this treatment is unfair," Nafziger told the CANA news agency. "It is clear that they [TTFF] are not going to back down from their position on the ban and that [TTFF president] Oliver Camps will not overrule [the technical staff]." Yorke and fellow English-based player Anthony Rougier of second division Reading were both banned from the Honduras match for their no-show for the Panama friendly. Camps said: "I received a letter from them appealing the decision but I told them there was nothing to consider because, as far as I am concerned, it was the coach's decision. "The coach can decide at any time which players he wants in his squad." But the banned pair were asked to stay with the squad to prepare for further matches in the six-nation CONCACAF final qualifying group against the United States in Boston on June 20 and Jamaica in Port of Spain on June 30. Trinidad and Tobago are bottom of the group with just one point from three matches and badly need a win against Honduras to revive their hopes of finishing in the top three and qualifying for the 2002 finals in South Korea and Japan.
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