Kammala wannan jumla: Tsoffin 'yan wasan kwallon kafa guda uku sun jagoranci kasashensu: Ahmed Ben Bella, George Weah, da Kaj Leo Johannesen. Ben Bella ya taka leda a Marseille a lokacin tsakiyar 1940s kafin ya jagoranci Aljeriya a bayan da ya yi nasara.
yaƙi, da farko a matsayin firaminista sannan kuma a matsayin shugaban ƙasa. Weah, wanda ya buga kwallon kafa na tsawon shekaru 18 a Afirka da Turai, ya kasance dan takarar da bai yi nasara ba don shugabancin Liberia a 2005 kafin a zabe shi a 2017. Johannesen, wanda ya taka leda a raga sau hudu ga 'yan wasan kwallon kafa na Faroe Islands a lokacin shekarun 1990, ya zama firaministan Faroe Islands a shekarar 2008. Sauran 'yan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa waɗanda suka nemi babban mukamin siyasa sun haɗa da Albert Guðmundsson (wanda ya gama na uku a zaɓen shugaban ƙasa na 1980 na Iceland) da Oleg Malyshkin, wanda ya gama na biyar a zaɓen shugaban ƙasa na Rasha na 2004.