Hyundai Mo­tors has of­fi­cials hand­ed over a fleet of ve­hi­cles to the Lo­cal Or­gan­is­ing Com­mit­tee (LOC) of the Fi­fa U-17 Women's World Cup.David Jardin CEO of Neal and Massy Au­to­mo­tive Lim­it­ed, (the Of­fi­cial deal­ers of Hyundai Mo­tors in T&T) hand­ed over the keys to the ve­hi­cles yes­ter­day to Nata­ki Kerr, deputy CEO of the LOC, dur­ing a short cer­e­mo­ny at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel.

The 55 spe­cial­ly brand­ed ve­hi­cles, which in­clude a num­ber of SU­Vs and mi­ni bus­es will be used to trans­port all of­fi­cials of the tour­na­ment over the next month. Nata­ki Kerr, Deputy CEO of the LOC hailed the hand­ing over as a "sym­bol­ic ges­ture of a grow­ing part­ner­ship."

This year, Hyundai cel­e­brates its 11th year of as­so­ci­a­tion with Fi­fa.

David Jardin CEO of Neal and Massy Au­to­mo­tive Lim­it­ed stat­ed that "Foot­ball is a uni­ver­sal­ly un­der­stood lan­guage and a pow­er­ful uni­fy­ing force that can pull peo­ple of all na­tion­al­i­ties, races and creeds to­geth­er. "We are proud to con­tin­ue this part­ner­ship with FI­FA". Mean­while, the U-17 women will take on the Re­pub­lic of Ire­land to­day in a warm-up match.