The Parent Conversation

Your child has chosen football. That alone tells you something about them.
This is a short, honest conversation — built around one question: how do we make this journey better for your child and for you?

8 min · Private · No right answers

Before we begin

Tell us about yourself

Your full name *

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Your email address *

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Child's age *

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Child's gender *

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Movement 1

Your child's story

Question 1 of 8

How did your child first fall in love with football?

Question 2 of 8

When your child talks about football, what do you hear most?

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Question 3 of 8

Your child is 22. Football has given them everything it can. What would make you feel the journey was worth it?

Movement 2

Your story as a parent

Question 4 of 8

On a normal week, what does your support look like?

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Question 5 of 8

What is the hardest part of supporting your child's football journey right now?

Movement 3

The honest conversation

Now for the part most football programmes never talk about. We think it's the most important part.

Question 6 of 8

Of every 100 children who play football seriously in India — how many do you think turn professional?

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Here is something we believe at IKF — and we want to know if you believe it too.

Football will not make every child a professional. But football can make every child better — more disciplined, more resilient, more confident, more employable, more human.

Question 7 of 8

If your child gives ten years to this game and does not play professionally — what would you want football to have given them?

Question 8 of 8

IKF Pathway 360 exists because we made a decision early — we would not build a programme that only serves the 1%. Every child in our ecosystem has a pathway. On the field and beyond it. Does that matter to you?

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Thank you for being honest. Most parents aren't — not because they mean to hide anything, but because nobody has ever asked them these questions before.

Here is what we heard.

Football chose your child. Now let's make sure the journey is worthy of that choice.