15-time capped Ghana midfielder Kevin Prince-Boateng has rejoined his boyhood club Hertha Berlin until 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The attacking midfielder joins from Serie B side AC Monza, where he featured 24 times, scored 5 goals and provided 4 assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cKevin-Prince Boateng knows Hertha BSC, the Bundesliga and Berlin. He won\u2019t need long to settle in. Prince\u2019s leadership qualities are a great addition to our team, both on and off the pitch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHe has also proven his skills as a player at the highest level for several years. Overall, everything about this transfer is right,\u201d said sporting director of Hertha Berlin Fredi Bobic, who knows Boateng from their time together at Eintracht Frankfurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s no secret that I\u2019d always been eyeing a return to Hertha BSC. The fact that it\u2019s finally worked out makes me very proud. I\u2019m eager to get started, and to play in front of a sold-out Ostkurve at the Olympiastadion with the lads,\u201d Boateng, who was born in Berlin, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 34-year-old will wear the number 27 shirt for the \u2018Old Lady\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Italian champion, DFB-Pokal winner, Spanish champion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Boateng joined the Hertha BSC academy as a seven-year-old and progressed through the ranks of the club\u2019s youth sides, before breaking into the first-team squad in 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He made a combined 53 appearances for Hertha (five goals, nine assists) in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and UEFA Cup, before joining Tottenham Hotspur in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following a loan spell at Borussia Dortmund and a stint at Portsmouth, Boateng joined AC Milan, where he became an Italian champion in 2011, before joining Genoa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2013, the midfielder returned to Germany, playing two seasons at FC Schalke 04.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He then moved to Spain for a stint at UD Las Palmas before returning to Germany once again in the summer of 2017 to sign for Eintracht Frankfurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Together with former Herthaner Marius Wolf and Bobic, Boateng won the DFB-Pokal in 2018. Boateng, who has appeared in 33 UEFA Champions League matches, then returned to Italy to join Sassuolo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In early 2019, he joined Barcelona on a six-month loan and won the Spanish league. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Following the end of his loan, Boateng made his way back to Italy, joining Fiorentina before going on loan to Be\u015fikta\u015f.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In September 2020, he signed a year deal for Monza before returning to Berlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n source: MyNewsGh.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 15-time capped Ghana midfielder Kevin Prince-Boateng has rejoined his boyhood club Hertha Berlin until 2022. The attacking midfielder joins from Serie B side AC Monza, where he featured 24 times, scored 5 goals and provided 4 assists. \u201cKevin-Prince Boateng knows Hertha BSC, the Bundesliga and Berlin. He won\u2019t need long to settle in. Prince\u2019s leadership […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n