He was the first ever cap­tain to lead a T&T to both a youth and se­nior Fi­fa World Cup and now he's get­ting be­hind the cur­rent Na­tion­al Un­der 20 Foot­ball team as they get set to be­gin their quest to qual­i­fy for the 2015 Fi­fa Un­der 20 World Cup in New Zealand.

For­mer Man­ches­ter Unit­ed for­ward Dwight Yorke to­day sent well wish­es to the cur­rent team which goes in­to ac­tion to­day against Suri­name from 7.15 pm at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um on the open­ing day of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union Un­der 20 Fi­nals.

Yorke led T&T to the 1991 Fi­fa Youth World Cup in Por­tu­gal with a side that was coached by Bertille St Clair and in­clud­ed the likes of An­tho­ny Sher­wood, Clay­ton Ince, An­gus Eve, Michael Mc­Comie, Shawn Boney and oth­ers.

"It's a fan­tas­tic tour­na­ment to qual­i­fy for at such a young age and it would be great if the cur­rent Trinidad and To­ba­go Un­der 20 team can get off to the right start in their match against Suri­name to­mor­row," Yorke told TTFA Me­dia from Lon­don on Thurs­day.

"It's one of those pe­ri­ods in your ca­reer where the world of foot­ball is there ahead of you and you want to do every­thing right not just for your coun­try but for your­selves as play­ers. I re­mem­ber when it hap­pened for us back in 1991. It is def­i­nite­ly one of the oth­er proud­est mo­ments in my ca­reer as a play­er on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage I was 18 years at the time and lead­ing the team in Por­tu­gal was a big oc­ca­sion for all of us. We saw our foot­ball progress from there and then we've gone on to qual­i­fy for Ger­many and a cou­ple of the oth­er youth teams done well al­so."

Yorke said it was a crit­i­cal time for skip­per Shan­non Gomez and his troops.

"The open­ing game is al­ways im­por­tant but we've pre­pared well and the boys want to win every match. We will not go in there think­ing it's be­yond us or that any team could be an easy op­po­nent. We in­tend to get it right from the first match," Gomez said.

The Caribbean teams are vy­ing for one of four spots in the 2015 Con­ca­caf Un­der-20 Fi­nals will in­clude a field of twelve teams: five from the Caribbean Foot­ball Union (CFU), four from the Cen­tral Amer­i­can Foot­ball Union (UN­CAF), and three from North Amer­i­ca.

In this evening's open­ing game Cu­ba will test Cu­ra­cao from 5pm. Ad­mis­sion is $40 and Kids un­der 12 are free.