In his first season with United, Yorke played an instrumental part in the club's Treble success. He was their top goalscorer for the season with 29, and he set up many others for Andy Cole, his new strike partner and close friend. Rivaldo only win spanish league...Yorke destroy everybody
is a team sport killa, so you reasoning a little off. Even at manU it was hard to pick the most influential man...Beckham, Keane, Scholes, Schmeichel was all getting the same level of love as Yorkie. Rivaldo had no peers at Barcelona that season (Figo was up there but in '99 he take a back seat to the Brazilian).
BUUUUT if Yorke was a Brazilian with more marketing behind him and from a more respected/romanticized football nation he mighta get more respect. plus, the winners of these trophies usually need to be shining for more than one season to win it. look how long it take shevchenko to get love...Yorke was never going to win it on one break-out season, unless he was an uber-marketed teenager or spoke a romance language