{"id":63871,"date":"2026-07-20T15:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/63871\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:05:06","slug":"remembering-the-life-and-career-of-kevin-keegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/63871\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the life and career of Kevin Keegan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Remembering the life and career of Kevin Keegan\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpupgJXq8C0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRemembering the life and career of Kevin Keegan<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFormer England footballer and manager Kevin Keegan has died at the age of 75.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, his family said: &#8220;It is with immense sadness that we announce that Kevin Keegan has passed away at the age of 75. The former England player and manager had been battling cancer and was surrounded by his wife and daughters in his final moments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kevin, a double Ballon D\u2019or winner, was a much loved husband, father and grandfather. The family would like to thank Kevin\u2019s incredible medical team for all their support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a hugely difficult time and they are requesting space and privacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Liverpool player and Newcastle manager revealed he had cancer in January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remembering the life and career of Kevin Keegan Former England footballer and manager Kevin Keegan has died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[54202,54208,54199,32603,17925,42910,34265,54203,54206,380,379,51284,36423,54204,54197,54196,54210,54198,54200,12281,54201,54205,54207,54209,4382],"class_list":["post-63871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-ballon-dor-winner","tag-british-football-icon","tag-england-football-legend","tag-england-football-news","tag-england-manager","tag-england-national-team","tag-football-history","tag-football-legend-dies","tag-football-tributes","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-itv-news-sport","tag-kevin-keegan","tag-kevin-keegan-cancer","tag-kevin-keegan-death","tag-kevin-keegan-dies","tag-kevin-keegan-legacy","tag-kevin-keegan-obituary","tag-liverpool-fc-legend","tag-liverpool-news","tag-newcastle-united-manager","tag-newcastle-united-news","tag-premier-league-legend","tag-rip-kevin-keegan","tag-sports-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}