{"id":35006,"date":"2011-06-04T21:37:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=35006"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:02:06","slug":"will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/06\/04\/will\/","title":{"rendered":"Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>An orphan journeys across Europe to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35007\" title=\"will-poster_06,11\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/will-poster_0611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/will-poster_0611.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/will-poster_0611-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Eleven-year-old Will Brennan is Liverpool FC\u2019s biggest fan. At his  boys&#8217; school in England, Will&#8217;s love and knowledge of The Beautiful Game  even outshines his football-obsessed mates.<\/p>\n<p>But life is turned  upside down when his long-absent father, Gareth, reappears with tickets  to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>But before the two  can start anew, Gareth dies suddenly, impossibly &#8212; this time leaving  Will forever. Searching for a sliver of meaning in a world that seems to  have abandoned him, Will runs away to Turkey to honour his father\u2019s  memory and to be with his beloved Liverpool F.C.<\/p>\n<p>En route, and  needing help, Will befriends Alek, a former Yugoslavian football star  who abandoned the game after a tragic event during his country\u2019s civil  war.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his initial reluctance, Alek finds himself inspired by Will&#8217;s heroic journey and agrees to take him to Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>And  thus this unlikely pair of underdogs takes to the road, battling fate  and fortune in a desperate bid to prove to themselves that it\u2019s never  too late to dream.<\/p>\n<p>Starring: Damian Lewis, Alice Krige, Bob Hoskins<\/p>\n<p>Official Trailer : <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.liverpoolfc.tv\/video\/Features\/Will-Official--26280.php3?plcl_autoplay=true\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An orphan journeys across Europe to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul. Eleven-year-old Will Brennan is Liverpool FC\u2019s biggest fan. At his boys&#8217; school in England, Will&#8217;s love and knowledge of The Beautiful Game even outshines his football-obsessed mates. But life is turned upside down when his long-absent father, Gareth, reappears with tickets to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":35007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[4667,5694],"class_list":["post-35006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}