DORTMUND, June 10 - Captain Dwight Yorke basked in 10-man Trinidad & Tobago's brave 0-0 draw with Sweden in their Group B opener on Saturday and said the shock result gave his side a chance of making the second round.

The Caribbean islanders, making their World Cup debut, worked tirelessly to keep the Swedes at bay in the second half after Avery John was sent off 35 seconds after the restart.

"It's brilliant, this is what footballing dreams are all about," the 34-year-old Yorke told reporters.

"To come up against a mighty footballing country of Sweden's status with obviously a tiny country like ours, it's a massive result for us."

Playing in a deeper midfield role than he is accustomed to, Man of the Match Yorke harassed Sweden's high-powered strikeforce of Henrik Larsson, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Freddie Ljungberg and never let them settle.

The result leaves Trinidad & Tobago, the smallest nation ever to qualify for the World Cup finals, joint second with Sweden after England had earlier beaten Paraguay 1-0.

"We felt that if we were ever going to have a glimmer of hope of going through to the second round...we needed to get something from this game," said Yorke.

"We have put ourselves in a situation where we have given ourselves half a chance. Football is full of surprises."

Trinidad next face England on Thursday in Nuremberg.