{"id":2058,"date":"2024-10-23T23:19:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T23:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2024-10-23T23:19:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T23:19:17","slug":"alex-van-halen-brother-eddie-im-not-done-dealing-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=2058","title":{"rendered":"Alex Van Halen on his brother Eddie: \u2018I\u2019m not done dealing with this yet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\" data-gu-name=\"headline\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14emo0l\">\n<div class=\"dcr-tp3hb3\">\n<div class=\"dcr-13fq93x\">\n<div class=\"dcr-47lvke\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a9ff34d4df5a84f47686d5491274a10666485d19\/0_74_1279_767\/master\/1279.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"A man wearing sunglasses looks ahead\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"dcr-47lvke\">In the new book Brothers, the drummer writes candidly about life in the spotlight alongside his late sibling and their many highs and lows<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"dcr-1fnjjtg\" data-gu-name=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14emo0l\">\n<div class=\" dcr-1v9sla6\">\n<div class=\"dcr-5oiine\">\n<div class=\"dcr-9dgpdq\" data-print-layout=\"hide\">\n<div class=\" dcr-1csot3r\">\n<div class=\"dcr-14baf59\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"dcr-1upb05m\" data-gu-name=\"body\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1i2kr8i\">\n<div id=\"maincontent\" class=\"dcr-1bwys2b\">\n<div class=\"article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector  dcr-1s4kg95\">\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">For the last few years, Alex\u00a0Van Halen\u00a0has been busy writing a book about his beloved brother, Eddie, with the sincere goal of capturing his sibling\u2019s spirit, purging his own sorrow and moving on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">It hasn\u2019t quite worked out that way. \u201cI\u2019m not done dealing with this yet,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, I\u2019ll probably be dealing with it until my dying day.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"sign-in-gate\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">In the meantime, he has been processing his grief, in part, by talking to his departed brother from time to time, including several instances during this very interview. Periodically in our one-hour talk, the 71-year-old drummer addressed his late brother directly, at times to ladle lavish praise on him, at others to curse him to the sky for the self-destructive behavior he believes had a hand in his demise. \u201cThis is probably a spiritually, psychically wrong thing to say,\u201d he said intensely, \u201cbut had Ed listened to our dad, he\u2019d still be here. Instead, he did everything he could to fuck that up.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-container \"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The lessons Alex alludes to from their dad had much to do with the importance of hard work, the urgency for appreciating life and the necessity of sitting gracefully with the treasures of your talent. Because Alex feels that, in the end, his brother couldn\u2019t live up to the last of those goals, he includes passages in his book, which he titled Brothers, where he angrily confronts his sibling\u2019s spirit with questions such as: \u201cDo you know how lucky we are? Do you know how fortunate you were to be born with a talent? Maybe you never believed you were worthy of your gift and that\u2019s why you were so self-destructive,\u201d he wrote. \u201cYou want to destroy the thing that\u2019s the most precious to you, so you can stop holding on to it for dear life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Such passages make Brothers both a highly emotional read and a rich psychological portrait of a family dynamic that, in many ways, defined the lives of both sons. To wit: during the interview Alex mentioned his father nearly a dozen times. \u201cWe owe everything to him,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was the icon, the one who we respected.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"b6d070b8-f74f-4a02-bf6d-d0280239955b\" class=\" dcr-a2pvoh\" data-spacefinder-role=\"supporting\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\">\n<div id=\"img-2\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><picture class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=380&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 1300px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 1300px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=380&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 1300px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=300&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 980px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 980px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=300&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 980px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=620&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 660px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 660px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=620&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 660px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=605&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 480px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=605&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=445&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 320px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0e39bd91e5e4355f0cf356dfca45696553a99a7e\/68_32_872_879\/master\/872.png?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"Two men smile, one resting his head atop the other\u2019s\" width=\"445\" height=\"448.572247706422\" \/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"dcr-1pvqcrw\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\"><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Alex and Eddie Van Halen.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">He was also the one they feared, as well as the one whose own ruinous issues with alcohol informed their own. Small wonder, Brothers winds up telling a far more complex story than its author may even have intended. At once, it\u2019s a story about the power of familial love, the mysteries of genius, via Eddie\u2019s paradigm-shifting approach to the guitar, and the role of the immigrant in America, with all of its related issues of race and class. At the same time, it\u2019s an age-old story of rock\u2018n\u2019roll excess, told with the ribald humor you\u2019d expect from a band that often served as a synonym for \u201cparty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">From the start, the Van Halen brothers were an insular team of outsiders who, through their music, found a way into the culture so deep, it made them one of the most globally successful rock groups of all time. Their parents were outsiders as well, living between cultures. Their father, a Dutch jazz musician, met their mother, who was Indonesian, in her country and married there. Facing prejudices for their interracial marriage, they chose to raise their family in Holland but later immigrated to seek the American dream in its epicenter of aspiration, Los Angeles. At the time, Alex was eight years old, Ed was six. Neither spoke a word of English. Total immersion in the new culture taught them fast, but at school their deficiencies showed. \u201cEvery time we were tested for anything, the low score was always language,\u201d Alex said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Ed took it to heart, believing he was unintelligent. According to Alex, Ed took\u00a0<em>everything\u00a0<\/em>to heart, internalizing any negative feedback either within the family or outside of it, while his older brother let everything roll off his back. Though they were biracial kids, Alex said they didn\u2019t experience much prejudice growing up due to their neighborhood. \u201cIt was Indian, Hispanic, Native American, you name it,\u201d he said. \u201cOur first bass player was Black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Interestingly, their biracial identity never became a topic of conversation even after they became world famous. As outsider kids, they knew the power, as well as the pain, of \u201cpassing\u201d. \u201cIf you don\u2019t mention it, I\u2019m not going to say anything,\u201d Alex said with an ironic laugh. \u201cThat\u2019s the way it works.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-container ad-slot-container-2 offset-right ad-slot--offset-right ad-slot-container--offset-right\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">At home, the boys had firm roles within the family, with Alex playing the tough protector to sensitive Ed. Due to his role as the elder, Alex had a closer relationship with their father \u2013 something that both irked Ed and brought out his competitive side. Ed also felt condescended to by his mother, whose strict standards caused her to judge her younger son harshly at times. Often, writes Alex, Ed felt \u201clike a nobody\u201d in her eyes, though he knew she loved him deeply. Their mother pushed both kids hard to study music, but from the classical world, which they abhorred, rather than the rock\u2018n\u2019roll one, which they adored. Her zeal for classical music was part of her idealization of \u201crespectable culture\u201d, in hopes of winning \u201cacceptance into the white world\u201d, Alex said. That\u2019s also why, to the last of her days, she viewed Van Halen\u2019s raucous music as \u201ca disgrace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">For the same striving reason, the family always referred to Ed as Edward, a name he used on all the band\u2019s album credits. \u201cHe could not\u00a0<em>stand\u00a0<\/em>to be called \u2018Eddie,\u2019\u201d Alex said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The family was poor, forcing their dad to take several jobs, including at a factory where the teenage Alex also worked. There, he instantly noticed class and race distinctions. \u201cThere wasn\u2019t a single caucasian person working there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The portrait Alex paints of his family is loving but rough and tumble, with the men sometimes reacting to each other violently. Still, Alex betrays not a trace of bitterness about even their toughest interactions. In their worship of their dad, the boys imitated his drinking from an early age. \u201cWe were \u2018pros\u2019 by the time we were 13,\u201d Alex said with a lingering trace of a boast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"7241da30-8e93-4b7b-ab2d-fceef2eafc48\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\">\n<div id=\"img-3\" class=\"dcr-1t8m8f2\"><picture class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb9d0ca310c33f14580ab57dfb97430162601808\/0_37_1024_614\/master\/1024.jpg?width=620&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 660px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 660px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb9d0ca310c33f14580ab57dfb97430162601808\/0_37_1024_614\/master\/1024.jpg?width=620&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 660px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb9d0ca310c33f14580ab57dfb97430162601808\/0_37_1024_614\/master\/1024.jpg?width=605&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 480px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 480px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb9d0ca310c33f14580ab57dfb97430162601808\/0_37_1024_614\/master\/1024.jpg?width=605&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb9d0ca310c33f14580ab57dfb97430162601808\/0_37_1024_614\/master\/1024.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 320px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.25), (min-width: 320px) and (min-resolution: 120dpi)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb9d0ca310c33f14580ab57dfb97430162601808\/0_37_1024_614\/master\/1024.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/eb9d0ca310c33f14580ab57dfb97430162601808\/0_37_1024_614\/master\/1024.jpg?width=445&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"A man wearing red and white overalls smiles as he plays guitar on stage\" width=\"445\" height=\"266.826171875\" \/><\/picture><\/div><figcaption class=\"dcr-1fujct4\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\"><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Eddie Van Halen in 1982.<\/span> Photograph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">The low status their parents held in society fired a righteous response in the sons to make it big at all costs. Fired by the music they worshipped, primarily by Cream and Led Zeppelin, they would \u201cplay from the moment we woke up until the moment we went to sleep\u201d, Alex said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-container ad-slot-container-3 offset-right ad-slot--offset-right ad-slot-container--offset-right\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Given their unwavering worth ethic, and the mega-success it yielded, the Van Halen story represents the ultimate expression of the immigrant dream. For that reason, Alex said he finds the current political targeting of immigrants \u201coffensive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">As teenagers, the brothers formed Van Halen along with bassist Michael Anthony and singer David Lee Roth. Immediately, nagging differences arose between the music-obsessed brothers and their frontman, who was more drawn to the showy role of entertainer. Though Roth\u2019s clownish behavior often made the brothers cringe, they recognized its commercial power and, so, went along with it. In the book, Alex often disparages Roth\u2019s vocal abilities, saying he could not keep time or, sometimes, sing on key. When they recorded their first album, in 1978, their producer, the legendary Ted Templeman, wanted to fire Roth and replace him with Sammy Hagar. (The latter wound up joining Van Halen after Roth quit in 1985.) That sparked one of many battles the brothers had with Templeman. \u201cHe was looking for the Doobie Brothers,\u201d Alex said. \u201cWe wanted to be more \u2018Led Zeppelin II\u2019. We wanted to improvise. He wanted us to sound just like his haircut \u2013 real tight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">For their debut album, they had to fight to push through Ed\u2019s solo song Eruption, a one-minute-forty-two-second revelation that fired a revolution in guitar technique. The album became a smash but the lousy contract they signed with Warner Bros meant that after a 12-month, hugely successful tour to support it, they owed the company $2m and had to rush back to the studio to help make up for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Luckily for them, their albums went from strength to strength, sales-wise but, internally, things were coming apart. In the book, Alex barely mentions bassist Anthony. When he does, he praises him more for his backup singing than for his main instrument. Though Alex calls Anthony \u201ca lovely guy, he just wasn\u2019t part of the equation\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Roth\u2019s hogging of the spotlight and insistence on emphasizing the razzle-dazzle over the sound, drove the brothers mad, exacerbated by what they saw as his jealousy for Ed\u2019s status as a creative colossus. More, Ed felt hemmed in by Templeman\u2019s discouragement of his solos and his questioning of even songs like Jump, a No 1 smash that Alex says neither their producer nor Roth thought worthy of recording. There was also tension within each brother between their own tastes (which leaned towards uncompromising acts like Mahavishnu Orchestra and Allan Holdsworth) and their unwavering desire to remain mega-popular. Things came to a head after Ed recorded his iconic solo on Michael Jackson\u2019s Beat It, without telling the others. \u201cWhat the fuck are you doing playing on that record?\u201d Alex recalled as his response. \u201cDon\u2019t you realize you only have so many great solos in you? Don\u2019t give one to Michael Jackson!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">According to Alex, Roth used Ed stepping out as an excuse to leave the band. Given how popular the singer had become through the very videos that embarrassed the brothers, it looked like he would have a great career in film and TV, as well as music. But it didn\u2019t work out that way. \u201cHe was delusional,\u201d said the drummer. \u201cHe\u2019s not an actor.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"0128cc58-34c4-44a5-912e-1bb80054ca13\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.VideoYoutubeBlockElement\">\n<div class=\"dcr-1y1vf5o\" data-component=\"youtube-embed\">\n<div class=\"dcr-xqrwq7\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Van Halen - Jump (Official Music Video)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SwYN7mTi6HM?wmode=opaque&amp;feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-container ad-slot-container-4 offset-right ad-slot--offset-right ad-slot-container--offset-right\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">Even so, Alex said: \u201cThe spiritual part of the band died when Dave left.\u201d That\u2019s why he ended his book in 1985. Though the band went on to have mega-success with subsequent frontman Hagar, he later wrote a scathing book about his time with them. Reacting to Hagar\u2019s complaints, Alex said: \u201c\u2018Are you really that jealous of Ed? Are you really that scared of him?\u2019 That\u2019s how people act when they try to diminish somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">When Ed died, so did Van Halen, though Alex still hopes to find a vehicle for some unreleased music by his brother. His quest provides a useful distraction from his grief. An extra problem he has had in processing it comes from the anger he feels towards his brother for not taking his cancer seriously enough. When Ed was first diagnosed with tongue cancer back in 2000, \u201crather than going to an oncologist, he went to an oral surgeon who used a blade that could fell a tree to cut part of his tongue out,\u201d Alex said. \u201cEd, what the fuck are you thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">His brother\u2019s particular reaction to intoxicants, Alex believes, had something to do with his feeling of invincibility. \u201cHe could do more drugs than anybody, and still be in top shape the next day,\u201d Alex said. But \u201cthe very thing that allows you to live that way makes you think \u2018I\u2019m immune from that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"ec360b5a-9b9c-4f9b-b8d8-a1d90cd7a2f1\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">In 2020, Edward Van Halen died\u00a0at age 65. He was one year younger than his dad was when he succumbed to alcoholism. \u201cThat says it all right there,\u201d Alex said. \u201cEd had to prove something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">\u201cMaybe he knew something we didn\u2019t,\u201d Alex said. \u201cMaybe he was just passing through. Ed was an angel in human form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-106f06m\">In the end, that\u2019s what Alex most urgently wants people to know about his brother. It\u2019s also what he holds most dear in order to cope, along with his belief that Ed lives on in some form, as do their mother and father. \u201cThe last person alive has the entire family in him,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know if our minuscule brains are capable of seeing it, but they\u2019re there. And I am definitely on the lookout.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the new book Brothers, the drummer writes candidly about life in the spotlight alongside his late sibling and their many highs and lows For the last few years, Alex\u00a0Van Halen\u00a0has been busy writing a book about his beloved brother, Eddie, with the sincere goal of capturing his sibling\u2019s spirit, purging his own sorrow and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279-150x150.avif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279-300x180.avif",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"large":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"jnews-360x180":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279-360x180.avif",360,180,true],"jnews-750x375":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"jnews-1140x570":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"jnews-120x86":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279-120x86.avif",120,86,true],"jnews-350x250":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279-350x250.avif",350,250,true],"jnews-750x536":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"jnews-1140x815":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"jnews-360x504":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279-360x288.avif",360,288,true],"jnews-75x75":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279-75x75.avif",75,75,true],"jnews-350x350":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279-350x288.avif",350,288,true],"jnews-featured-750":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false],"jnews-featured-1140":["https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif",480,288,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Newssoccer","author_link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Blog<\/a>","tag_info":"Blog","comment_count":"10","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1279.avif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}