Kakha Kaladze has plans for his post-football career

After the lights have been turned out, the WAG wannabes have left to stalk out another person’s hotel room and there is no kick left in the legs, what is a footballer to do with the rest of his life? Some go the bargain shopping route. Others like AC Milan defender Kakha Kaladze have a bit more ambition.

The captain of Georgia’s national team has concluded that in life after football he would like to become president of his country. Who knew that Georgia even had a president? Is there a version of the White House in Atlanta or something? Wasn’t it burned down during filming of Gone with the Wind?

Oh, not that Georgia, you say. The other one. The one where Kaladze is so beloved that his likeness actually appears on a postage stamp.

If being exposed to the intrigue that is Serie A football isn’t enough to prepare one for running a country little else can. “When I’m done as a player I want to go to the United States to get an extra education and then get involved in politics,” Kaladze, 29, told the Rustavi 2 television station.

Kaladze isn’t the first footballer to have political ambitions. George Weah finished a close second in the race to become Liberia’s president. There is also the Ukrainian great Oleg Blokhin who hung up his boots and served as a member of the communist party in Ukraine’s national parliament. Tayyip Erdogan played professional football for 16 years and later on decided it would be fun to be the prime minister of Turkey.

And then there is Kaladze’s boss at AC Milan, Silvio Berlusconi, who wasn’t much of a player but who did use his Serie A experience to get a gig as prime minister.

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