BEFORE BECKHAM AND RONALDO, THERE WAS KEVIN KEEGAN – THE FOOTBALLER WHO INVENTED THE PERSONAL BRAND
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Anyone old enough to remember Kevin Keegan in his heyday as a player will also have etched on the memory his 1980 television advert for the aftershave and deodorant brand Brut. Featuring Keegan working out in the gym and bantering in the locker room alongside boxing legend Henry Cooper, it was an early example of a footballer doing what would now be called “leveraging his personal brand”.
According to Arts + Culture – The Conversatio, Anyone old enough to remember Kevin Keegan in his heyday as a player will also have etched on the memory his 1980 television advert for the aftershave and deodorant brand Brut.
The available RSS description adds: Featuring Keegan working out in the gym and bantering in the locker room alongside boxing legend Henry Cooper, it was an early example of a footballer doing what would now be called “leveraging his personal brand”.
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- Arts + Culture – The Conversatio: Anyone old enough to remember Kevin Keegan in his heyday as a player will also have etched on the memory his 1980 television advert for the aftershave and deodorant brand Brut.
- Arts + Culture – The Conversatio: Featuring Keegan working out in the gym and bantering in the locker room alongside boxing legend Henry Cooper, it was an early example of a footballer doing what would now be called “leveraging his personal brand”.
- Arts + Culture – The Conversatio: Keegan, whose death at the age of 75 was announced on Monday, was Britain’s first footballing superstar.
- Arts + Culture – The Conversatio: But he was also perhaps the first to intuitively grasp the idea that his success as a footballer could be turned into something that held a wider cultural and commercial value – and could make him a celebrity in the…
- Arts + Culture – The Conversatio: Today’s footballing superstars are autonomous economic and cultural forces, global celebrities far beyond their sport, and Keegan was a bridge from that old world to the new.
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- 21/07/2026, 16:44 PRIMARY FEED BEFORE BECKHAM AND RONALDO, THERE WAS KEVIN KEEGAN – THE FOOTBALLER WHO INVENTED THE PERSONAL BRAND (Arts + Culture – The Conversatio • 1 day ago) [Story Intel]
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