{"id":465513,"date":"2018-02-19T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/jerome-boateng-set-to-visit-ghana-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T11:00:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T11:00:30","slug":"jerome-boateng-set-to-visit-ghana-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/jerome-boateng-set-to-visit-ghana-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerome Boateng set to visit Ghana for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday, 19 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-19<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/14115253.295.jpg\" alt=\"Jerome Boateng Newly\" title=\"Jerome Boateng Newly\" width=\"295\" height=\"205\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Germany and Bayern Munich defender, Jerome Boateng<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813921649\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813921649\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519038030_263_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Germany and Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng will be making a trip to Ghana, the country of his father, for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Born to a Ghanaian father and a German mother in Berlin, the 29-year-old won the Fifa World Cup with Die Mannschaft in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been to Africa but I didn\u2019t go to Ghana,\u201d Boateng told DW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will go there this summer with my daughters and family members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although yet to visit Ghana, Jerome, younger brother of Black Stars and Eintracht Frankfurt midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, holds the country dearly in his heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tattoo started when I was 16-years-old,\u201d Jerome said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was with my two older brothers and they said \u2018today we are all going to do the same tattoo but don\u2019t tell your mother\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we all went and had our bodies tattooed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the continent of Africa with Ghana inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jerome has over 60 caps so far for Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, he and Kevin-Prince made history as the first brothers to play against each other at the Fifa World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>They clashed for the second time at Brazil 2014.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 58 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Monday, 19 February 2018 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2018-02-19 Germany and Bayern Munich defender, Jerome Boateng Germany and Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng will be making a trip to Ghana, the country of his father, for the first time. 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