My personal experience as
a footballer in past and now, at present my professional experience as a
football manager enabled me to have a insight about the lifestyle of
footballers from very close. There is a prevailing wrong conception rather a prejudice
established in Indian football culture that footballers don’t require to be
educated. However, with time to some extent that irrelevant conception has
changed to somewhat level but still it hasn’t changed much. Mostly in
semi-urban and rural areas of Bengal, Bihar, Orissa etc. footballers never
consider education as an integral part of their upbringing procedure. As
education is not given adequate attention, footballers of every level in India
face immense difficulties while communicating with foreign coaches and players.
Besides, lack of education precipitates their sufferance in future in every
means.
Education can not only
help them to communicate decently with foreign team members but it can also
help them in their professional lives when they join any job. Due to lack of
education footballers those who can’t make it to the top level often end up in
a messy situation and get addicted to drugs and alcohols. Education can
certainly turn things around for footballers. The first and foremost factor is
that education can make footballers self-reliable and help them from not being deceived
by agents and unfaithful officials. Above all education can secure a decent
lifestyle for footballers who can’t be successful in football.
Keeping the prospect of
education in mind footballers should be encouraged to continue their education
in the best possible way with utmost sincerity. Just like footballers parents
and football officials also set education at the top of their priority list for
the holistic development of a budding footballer.
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