Letter to the editor. Unreasonable that AIK is pushing parents financially
Letting children play football in AIK today cost more than many families can afford. A teenager in the club pays SEK 4,850 a year plus SEK 3,500 in parental association fee, membership in the rodents and AIK Youth. In practice, it can be upwards of SEK 9,000 per child – every year.
When you pay close to SEK 9,000 per year for a child in AIK, while seeing that young people in other clubs get similar or better activities for less than half of that cost, then it feels unfair – especially in a club that says they stand for « all people’s equal value » and have the ambition to be the whole of Northern Stockholm’s club.
It’s not just unreasonable. It is unacceptable.
Unlike From other clubs-such as Hammarby, where it costs a maximum of SEK 2,050 for a 19-year-old-AIK has become an association where you are pushing parents financially. What is really being done with the money? Do they go to the youth business, straight into the academy’s black holes or the A-team budget?
It smells like milking. Of families with children. In a club that claims to stand for values and community.
This is not an elite team in the Champions League – it’s children’s football we’re talking about. On artificial turf in Solna.
This is not AIK’s soul. This is a betrayal against thousands of children and young people who just want to play ball with their club brand on their chest. And a betrayal to all parents who are struggling for their children to join.
We demand:
• An independent review of AIK’s youth fees.
• Accounting of where every penny goes.
• A stop for fees that shut out children.
AIK should not Be a club for the rich. AIK should be for us. All of us. And our children.
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