An owner of a football club in The Meadows is fearful about its future because of financial struggles. Rodrick Maveso runs grassroots football club The Rossoneri FC, who play matches on pitches at the Victoria Embankment.
He founded the club in September 2015 and launched it in January 2016, and now more than 100 kids play across its seven teams, with kids playing from as young as five-years-old. The club has a total of seven teams that play competitive matches, with age ranges starting from under-11s, up to a new men's team that is hoped to start for the new season.
Rodrick is worried though because he says the cost of living crisis is affecting some parents being able to pay for their kids to be a subscribing member of the club, which is around £30 for registration per child and £5 per week each, but doesn't want to turn the kids away because of how much it means to them. One of those parents affected is Habby Kizito, who has five boys, aged 19, 14, two 13-year-old twins and a nine-year-old.
