Kevin-Prince Boateng
Boateng in 2010, photo by Maxisports/Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Berlin, West Germany (now Germany)
Date of Birth: 6 March, 1987
Ethnicity:
*Ghanaian (father)
*German (mother)
Kevin-Prince Boateng is a German professional footballer. He is a midfielder or forward for 2. Bundesliga club Hertha BSC. He has also played for Hertha BSC II, Tottenham Hotspur, Borussia Dortmund, Portsmouth, Genoa, AC Milan, Schalke, Las Palmas, Eintracht Frankfurt, Sassuolo, Barcelona, Fiorentina, Beşiktaş, and Monza. Kevin-Prince represented Germany at youth level, but chose to play for Ghana at senior level. He also played for both internationally. He is nicknamed “Prince.”
Kevin-Prince was born in Berlin, West Germany, now Germany, to a Ghanaian father, Prince Boateng, and a German mother, Christine Rahn. His paternal half-brother is footballer Jérôme Boateng. His uncle, Yaw Boateng Gyan, was the National Organizer of the NDC (National Democratic Congress) in Ghana. Kevin-Prince’s maternal grandfather was a first cousin of professional footballer Helmut Rahn.
Kevin-Prince has a son with his former wife Jenny; and a son with his former wife, Italian actress and television personality Melissa Satta.
Source: http://www.spiegel.de
Son of Prince Boateng and Christine Rahn. Kevin-Prince’s maternal grandfather and footballer Helmut Rahn were cousins. Kevin represented Germany at youth level, but chose to play for Ghana at senior level.
Kevin-Prince’s half-brother (same father, different German mothers) is German footballer Jérôme Boateng.
Helmut Rahn is a German football (soccer, if you want) legend in the world champions’ team in 1954 and the grand-uncle of Kevin Prince (according to German Wikipedia); perhaps Kevin Prince could have followed him, but he decided to play for Ghana …
(But I think he wouldn’t have made it into the German national team; too many strong players in the midfield)