Kevin Keegan, England soccer star who transcended the game with celebrity status, dies at 75
Kevin Keegan, the two-time Ballon d'Or-winning soccer star who captained and coached England and won the European Cup with Liverpool, has died. He was 75.His death was announced on Monday (July 20, 2026) by his former club Newcastle, where he had been both a player and coach. That year, he released "Head Over Heels in Love," which finished higher in the singles' charts in Germany (No.
- ▪Kevin Keegan, the two-time Ballon d'Or-winning soccer star who captained and coached England and won the European Cup with Liverpool, has died.
- ▪He was 75.His death was announced on Monday (July 20, 2026) by his former club Newcastle, where he had been both a player and coach.
- ▪That year, he released "Head Over Heels in Love," which finished higher in the singles' charts in Germany (No.
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Kevin Keegan, the two-time Ballon d'Or-winning soccer star who captained and coached England and won the European Cup with Liverpool, has died. He was 75.His death was announced on Monday (July 20, 2026) by his former club Newcastle, where he had been both a player and coach. Keegan revealed last month that he had stage four cancer."One of the most iconic, influential and deeply loved figures in our club's history," Newcastle said.For a time in the 1970s, Keegan transcended the English game with his celebrity status.Keegan, one of just four Englishmen to win the Ballon d'Or, wasn't just a brilliant soccer player who dovetailed nimbleness and an eye for goal with a relentless hunger and work rate stemming from his working-class upbringing in northern England.He was also a trendsetter off…
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