Forward of the 2025 UEFA Girls’s European Championships, Pepsi has launched a brand new world marketing campaign titled “Refresh the Recreation”, 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 Recreation” 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 a 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 fingers to James, who takes a sip – signifying the passing of the torch from previous icons to right now’s game-changers.
True to its title, “Refresh the Recreation” connects soccer’s legendary previous with its quickly evolving current, placing girls’s soccer entrance and centre.
David Beckham shared his pleasure concerning the collaboration: “We’re witnessing a brand new era of sporting superstars, and it has been an honour to characteristic alongside them. The gamers on this marketing campaign have performed a pivotal function in getting girls’s soccer to the place it’s right now.”
Cathy Graham Kidd, Senior Advertising and marketing Director at Pepsi, added: “Our new movie ‘Refresh the Recreation’ celebrates soccer legends of the previous and champions the celebs redefining the sport right now.
“At Pepsi we’re dedicated to accelerating girls’s soccer, supporting those that problem conventions to drive pleasure and alter. By utilizing the facility of leisure, collectively, we need to carry girls’s soccer to new audiences by showcasing the uncooked expertise and pleasure it brings.”
Because the Girls’s Euro 2025 approaches, Pepsi’s marketing campaign units the tone—bridging generations of soccer whereas celebrating the ladies reshaping its future.
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