Family and Personal Life
Boateng was born in Germany to ethnic German mother and Akan father. His father, Prince Boateng, Sr., in 1981 arrived in Germany to attend university and to study business administration. His mother is Christine Rahn and is a nurse, and his uncle, Robert Boateng was a professional footballer who played with the Norwegian club Rosenborg BK and the Ghana national football team, and his maternal grandfather is a cousin of legendary German football star Helmut Rahn, scorer of the winning goal in the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final.
In 2007, Boateng married his wife and childhood sweetheart, Jennifer Michelle Boateng (born 1984). Boateng's only child, Jermaine-Prince Boateng, was born in 2007. Boateng has two brothers, George and Jérôme, and he has one sister, Avelina. Both brothers are football players, with the youngest of the two brothers, Jérôme, also having previously been at Hertha BSC and now playing with Bayern Munich and the German national team.
In official documents, his name is given as Kevin Boateng, but he prefers Kevin-Prince in honour of his father, Prince Boateng, Sr. His Brazilian lawyer, Mario Miele is agent of Paulo Henrique Ganso.
Boateng speaks six languages; German, Turkish, Arabic, French, English and Italian.
His favorite football players are Pelé and Rivaldo.
Read more about this topic: Kevin-Prince Boateng, Outside Football
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