Dubai, United arab emirates, is a place that offers luxurious conditions for a to advance in the football team – but also a non-democratic monarchy with no respect for human rights, according to the state department.
has been met by protests from members. In an interview with the Danish BT in January was criticized FC Copenhagen in order to indirectly support the regime by working out at the royal family’s private facility of the Martin Hvidt, associate professor in middle eastern studies at the university of southern denmark. AIK train in the same facility and live in addition, at the royal hotel, writes Fotbollskanalen.
– It is well so that whatever choices you make, so it will be a consequence. We choose to not in any way do something different down here than to practice football, ” says AIK’s sports director Björn Wesström to the site.
is the two clubs after the protests against the previous camp in Dubai has chosen to go to Spain and Portugal instead.
“It is clear that the account of the just as there will be criticism about a lot of different things that we decide to do, but somewhere, in the end, we may sum up the situation, decide on a direction and then take it, and if too many members think that it is wrong the way that AIK is on the way so it will show itself over time,” says Wesström.
