– They need to step up!

The chase from the parents drives the whole spiral of differences in football, believes the Rødt politician.

Mímir Kristjánsson is above average involved in football. He has read the VG series “The Divided Football City” with great interest.

VG’s interview with Arina Aamir – a young right-wing politician who talks about social control social controlHow society regulates how people should behave. Social control can take place informally, by family and friends, or formally by the police, judiciary and other authorities. of girls on the eastern edge – causes Kristjánsson to react.

Arina Aamir

– I would like to make some clear messages to the parents on the other side of the city as well: They need to toughen up!

Kristjánsson believes social control is at least as big a problem in the West, just in a different way.

– There is a lot of talk about social control on the eastern edge, but far too little about the extreme competitive mentality that has developed among those with a lot of money in the west.

VG has put the spotlight on the differences between “poor” and “rich” in Oslo football.

We have visited broadside clubs that aim to create top players. They offer a football academy with a training fee of up to NOK 20,000 a year.

Have rich parents and the right residential address become important to being able to become a football professional?

– It is the chase from the parents that drives the whole spiral of difference in football, wealthy dads who not only accept that their son enjoys football, but also demand that he be some kind of super talent, says Kristjánsson.

Mímir Kristjánsson

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He recalls that it is the parents’ money that makes it possible for the pod to have private lessons in an academy.

– Then the best clubs in the west, drugged by parental money, start to bring in players from other clubs down to the age of 12. A competitive mentality is created which becomes quite unfortunate when combined with money.

He wants a settlement with the culture.

– In short, rich parents just have to stop doing this. They must come to terms with the fact that Norwegian sport is built on community, not on the “daddy pays” principle.

Firstly, Kristjánsson claims that Oslo gets worse footballers as a result, because they put “all” the resources in football in the west.

– Secondly, I doubt that it is so good for all those children.

– More people have contacted us and feel pressure to join?

– I don’t doubt that for a second. Maybe the kid just wants to play football and enjoy himself, but because you are unlucky enough to be born in Oslo west, it is an extreme top football investment very early on.

– All parents know how difficult it is to resist peer pressure. Young people already have a sick list of demands on them, and an overzealous dad may not always help.

– The academies create a lot of activity that the sports teams are otherwise unable to offer?

– Yes, but the negative here is the money. There will be some clubs on the western edge of Oslo that will seize almost all of the football resources in the city. People are willing to spend a lot of money in a way that undermines the entire Norwegian sports model.

– The parents are only interested in their children being the best, not in Norway being the best possible. It is very egocentric.

– Then there is certainly a lot of good about the academy, and one should probably consider whether public offers should be made in that direction.

– Is it so bad that parents want the best for their children?

– No. The problem is that it gives the opportunity to buy “fast track” for the children in areas where it should rather be about talent and other things. I don’t have a quick fix for this.

– Do parents pay for other activities, such as piano lessons?

– Yes, and our policy goes in the direction of a leisure card that allows everyone to take part in activities. I’m half Icelandic, and that’s where the leisure card idea comes from.

– But you can’t get a leisure card to cover private PT lessons in football, chuckles Mímir Kristjánsson.

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