BRIEF PROFILE OF KEVIN-PRINCE BOATENG

Kevin-Prince Boateng (born 6 March 1987) is currently playing for FC Schalke 04. Boateng is a Utility Man and utilized in many positions.

Boateng started his career with the club Reinickendorfer Füchse and was with Hertha BSC from 1 July 1994, to 31 July 2007. After emerging from the Hertha BSC feeder teams, Boateng played for Hertha BSC II for two seasons. He was promoted to the Hertha BSC first team squad in the 2005–06 season

Boateng signed for Hertha BSC in the Bundesliga in July 1994. In 2006 he was nominated as one of the best youth players in Germany. Boateng left the Bundesliga in 2007 to play in the Premier League but later returned to the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund in 2009. He later played for Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth in the Premier League and for Genoa CFC and AC Milan in Serie A, prior to playing for FC Schalke of the Bundesliga.

Boateng has 12 caps with 2 goals for the Ghana national football team, and was among the ten players nominated for African Footballer of the Year in 2010 and 2011. Boateng is known for his intense dynamism; physical strength, extreme aggression, man-to-man marking, tempestuous sliding tackles, endurance, immense work rate, exceptional high jumping, acrobatics, both footedness, footspeed, and ball-juggling tricks.

After emerging from the Hertha BSC feeder teams, Boateng played for Hertha BSC II for two seasons. He was promoted to the Hertha BSC first team squad in the 2005–06 season

International career

Boateng holds a German passport, and he played for the German Under-15, Under-16, Under-17, Under-19, Under-20 and Under-21 national teams. 

In May 2010, he accepted an offer from the GFA with an offer to play for the Ghanaian national team. Boateng made his debut in a 1–0 victory over Latvia in June 2010. 

Boateng was part of the Ghana squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa by head coach Milovan Rajevac. On 23 June, he played in Ghana's game against Germany for whom his half-brother, Jérôme Boateng plays, in which Ghana held-down Germany to a narrow 60th minute lone goal and 1–0 win. Boateng picked up the ball from the half-way line then dribbled the ball "rapidly bamboozling" his opponents from the half-way line before scoring for Ghana with a left-footed shot from outside the penalty area in the fourth minute of a 2–1 win over the United States in the round-of-16 in Rustenburg's Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace on 26 June.


In November 2011, Boateng announced his international retirement, citing fatigue from travel, and thus Boateng missed the chance to contend with Black Stars in January 2012 to win the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations
 
On 1 October 2013, Boateng was selected for the Ghana national football team's 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification play-offs against Egypt. On 4 November 2013, he came on as a 79th minute substitute in the second leg and scored Ghana's only goal in the 89th minute as the Black Stars secured qualification to the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

 On 12 May 2014, Boateng was named in Ghana's 26-man provisional squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. He likes to wear the number 9 shirt. Boateng will be making his second appearance for Ghana at the World Cup. He has 2 goals in 13 games for the Black Stars.