OPR scores a hat-trick with ‘Big Phil Scolari’

1 December 2008

by Rosie ‘Robinho’ Robbins  The OPR London EMBRATUR team (that’s Viviane Borges, Imogen Lovell-Smith and me) held an event recently to launch the latest advertising campaign to promote Brazil as a tourist destination, in the private cinema at London’s Courthouse Hotel. The highlight of the girls’ night was meeting Luiz Felipe Scolari, a.k.a. Chelsea FC’s coach, now fondly known by English football fans as “Big Phil”, who came along to lend his support to the new campaign. The team all agreed that he was the nicest celebrity we’ve ever had the chance to work with – posing for photos with every single one of the event’s 131 attendees, including the Guardian’s deputy travel editor Gavin.The broadcast team was also represented shooting for Embratur’s internal archive. Here’s Adam’s ‘mental’ video contribution for this post…

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