Lack of basic education continues to see some successful footballers still become the most vulnerable off the pitch across the world.

Ghanaian players are not excluded from this problem as their progress in the game overshadows the importance of education in their careers.

For those whose hopes of a football career fail to materialize, they become the hardest hit as they are muscled out from the rapid globalisation of other sectors as a result of their lack of education.

The Ghana Football Association in 2009 signed up to the worldwide 1GOAL campaign to provide education for every child across the globe. The 1GOAL campaign aims to achieve a school place for the 75 million children out of education.

However, to address these challenges and deliver footballers who are skilled in other vocations, the Vice President of Ghana, John Mahama has recommended, to the FA on a local level, to formulate policies which will educate footballers.

"At our current stage of the development of the football game in Ghanaa, it is imperative that the GFA considers to put in place policies and programmes to encourage our footballers to acquire some basic education," H.E. John Mahama said on Wednesday as he joined football family to commission the Fifa Goal III Project - a multi-purpose dining and conference facility plus kitchen - at the Ghanaman Soccer Centre of Excellence in Prampram.

"This will make our footballers multi-skilled and also provide them with alternative opportunities for active engagement later in life in other vocations when they retire from active soccer.

"Pursuing soccer as a career does not preclude one from attaining ones potential in other areas of human endeavour. The days that football professionals were considered as school dropouts is gone forever."

And to make a headway is tackling such issues, the Vice President is advocating for close collaboration between Government and the Ghana Football Association.