{"id":611302,"date":"2019-04-29T18:03:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday, 29 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Goal.com <\/p>\n2019-04-29\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/28395056.295.j"},"modified":"2019-04-29T18:03:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:03:39","slug":"german-criticism-destroyed-me-in-ghana-kevin-prince-boateng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/29\/german-criticism-destroyed-me-in-ghana-kevin-prince-boateng\/","title":{"rendered":"German criticism destroyed me in Ghana &#8211; Kevin-Prince Boateng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Monday, 29 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Goal.com <\/p>\n<p>2019-04-29<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/28395056.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Prince Boateng Ghana Kiss\" title=\"Kevin Prince Boateng Ghana Kiss\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kevin switched allegiance to Ghana having played for Germany at the youth level<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Nine years down the lane, Ghana international Kevin-Prince Boateng has shed new light on his troubles after his tackle on Michael Ballack during an English FA Cup fixture between his former club Portsmouth and Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Boateng&#8217;s tackle ruled Die Mannschaft&#8217;s captain out of the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa. <\/p>\n<p>A month before the global showpiece and with German-born Boateng having just switched international allegiance to the country of his father, he came under intense criticism from the German public and media for an allegedly &#8216;deliberate and malicious challenge&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the Black Stars were billed to face Germany at the World Cup, having drawn Germany alongside Australia and Serbia in Group D. This took the script to a different level. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This question [about what such an incident does to you] is easy to answer: It destroys you,&#8221; Boateng, currently on the books of Barcelona told Goal.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m a fighter. I&#8217;ve always reminded myself that I&#8217;m a boy from Wedding (a district in Berlin) and there&#8217;s nothing able to pull me down. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I have to say that I was really bad for a while, but then comes the point where it gets better again. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I tried to move on and somehow forget about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boateng was born to a German mother so he represented the Europeans at various youth levels before pledging his future to the Black Stars.<\/p>\n<p>At the World Cup, Kevin-Prince and his younger brother Jerome were on opposing sides, a record they took to an all-new level when they faced each other again at the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil. <\/p>\n<p>Germany won the first match in South Africa 1-0 while the second fixture ended in a 2-2 draw in Brazil.<\/p>\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, 29 April 2019 Source: Goal.com 2019-04-29 Kevin switched allegiance to Ghana having played for Germany at the youth level Nine years down the lane, Ghana international Kevin-Prince Boateng has shed new light on his troubles after his tackle on Michael Ballack during an English FA Cup fixture between his former club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>German criticism destroyed me in Ghana - Kevin-Prince Boateng - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/29\/german-criticism-destroyed-me-in-ghana-kevin-prince-boateng\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"German criticism destroyed me in Ghana - Kevin-Prince Boateng - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sports News of Monday, 29 April 2019 Source: Goal.com 2019-04-29 Kevin switched allegiance to Ghana having played for Germany at the youth level Nine years down the lane, Ghana international Kevin-Prince Boateng has shed new light on his troubles after his tackle on Michael Ballack during an English FA Cup fixture between his former club [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/29\\\/german-criticism-destroyed-me-in-ghana-kevin-prince-boateng\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/04\\\/29\\\/german-criticism-destroyed-me-in-ghana-kevin-prince-boateng\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"headline\":\"German criticism destroyed me in Ghana &#8211; 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