Forward of the 2025 UEFA Ladies’s European Championships, Pepsi has launched a brand new international marketing campaign titled “Refresh the Sport”, mixing soccer nostalgia with modern-day star energy in a celebration of the game’s evolution.
The one-minute movie options present Pepsi ambassadors Alexia Putellas, Lauren James, Leah Williamson, Caroline Graham Hansen, and Farah Jefry. It additionally brings again legendary figures Pelé, Ronaldinho and David Beckham to recreate a few of Pepsi’s most iconic adverts.
“Refresh the Sport” kicks off with a press convention scene earlier than the gamers are transported into memorable moments from Pepsi’s promoting historical past.
Putellas is first, becoming a member of Pelé in a recreation of the 1974 movie “Be part of the Pepsi Era.” Graham Hansen then seems alongside Ronaldinho in a high-energy sequence impressed by Pepsi’s 2005 “Surfers” advert, set dramatically over water. James makes a shock cameo within the 2003 Wild West-themed industrial initially that includes David Beckham, cheekily intercepting his drink because it slides throughout the bar.
The movie wraps up within the current day, with Putellas flicking a Pepsi can from Beckham’s arms to James, who takes a sip – signifying the passing of the torch from previous icons to at present’s game-changers.
True to its title, “Refresh the Sport” connects soccer’s legendary previous with its quickly evolving current, placing girls’s soccer entrance and centre.
David Beckham shared his pleasure in regards to the collaboration: “We’re witnessing a brand new technology of sporting superstars, and it has been an honour to characteristic alongside them. The gamers on this marketing campaign have performed a pivotal position in getting girls’s soccer to the place it’s at present.”
Cathy Graham Kidd, Senior Advertising and marketing Director at Pepsi, added: “Our new movie ‘Refresh the Sport’ celebrates soccer legends of the previous and champions the celebrities redefining the sport at present.
“At Pepsi we’re dedicated to accelerating girls’s soccer, supporting those that problem conventions to drive pleasure and alter. Through the use of the facility of leisure, collectively, we wish to deliver girls’s soccer to new audiences by showcasing the uncooked expertise and pleasure it brings.”
Because the Ladies’s Euro 2025 approaches, Pepsi’s marketing campaign units the tone—bridging generations of soccer whereas celebrating the ladies reshaping its future.
