Manchester United ambassador Dwight Yorke visits Kolkata, launches Formula GX

In March earlier this year, Gulf Oil International, the parent company of Gulf Oil Lubricants India, marked a milestone by entering into a long term partnership with Manchester United Football Club.

To mark the association, Yorke, the club ambassador for MUFC unveiled the special edition pack of the passenger car engine oil company, in a red and gold colour just like the club.

Dwight Yorke, the Manchester United ambassador and legend said, “It is a great honour to be here in Kolkata”.

Yorke said he was very excited to see his club’s performance in the coming season.

“I have been very fortunate to have been able to fulfill my dream of being a player, and especially to have represented Trinidad and Tobago in 2006, a tiny island with approximately only a 1.2 million population to have qualified for the World Cup,” said the footballer.

In response to whether he had any plans for associating himself with the football scenario of the country, as a player or otherwise, Yorke said: ”Despite cricket being the number one sport, over the years, football has  grown as a sport in India especially with a lot of foreign players representing the various clubs and playing for them”.

“Yes, I am looking to break into management at this point of my career, and I have every intention to be a manager one day whether it is here or back in England, and it might just start here in India”, added the striker.

Gulf Oil International’s Vice President of Brand and Marketing, Vicki Kipling said the association brought together two major global brands.
”It was the coming together of two global brands, each of which has had a long and distinguished history,” said Gulf Oil International’s Vice President of Brand and Marketing, Vicki Kipling.

Both Manchester United, which is one of the very few clubs to establish football as a top ranking sport and Gulf Oil International are growing rapidly each day, and India plays a big role in their market, said Kipling.

“To be in partnership with the world’s greatest football club that is associated with legends like Yorke and many others who have played with such pride and passion itself is an achievement for me”, said Ravi Chawla, Managing Director of Gulf Oil Lubricants India Limited.

To be able to launch the product in the country’s very hub of football is a further privilege for us, said Chawla.

(Reporting by Tanushree Sen, IBNS, Image: Wikimedia Commons)