From Chiellini to Buongiorno and Pobega, from Mertens to Dzeko and Ogbonna, here are the graduate footballers (and who is about to become one)

Give a degree to a footballer who has already shown that he knows how to manage himself – as a professional on the pitch and as a man – and who knows where he will go. The story of football tells it that over the decades has not only featured cover characters on the green lawn, but also kids who were then able to establish themselves behind a desk. By virtue of the competitive spirit (developed in sport); a knowledge of transnational languages ​​and customs. And maybe even that piece of paper (as our parents would define it) to which the emerging central defender of Milan, Fikayo Tomori (born in 1997; from Calgary, Canada), also aspires. The naturalized Englishman, in addition to his career with the ball at his feet, is already thinking about a possible post-football future. Starting with his forthcoming degree in Business Management, as he already told the English speaker two years ago Daily Mail: When I retire — or, God forbid, should I get injured — then I’ll have something that I’m already working on and that could be a good premise for my future. enrolled at the Open University (public research university, specializing in distance learning; one of the busiest universities in the UK) and devotes at least ten hours a week to his courses. A good investment for post-football. As many professionals think – undergraduates or graduates – still fully active (football).