George Boateng
Encyclopedia
George Boateng is a Dutch
footballer who plays as a midfielder
for Nottingham Forest
in The Championship
.
, Ghana
, after playing 70 games for Dutch giants Feyenoord Rotterdam
, Boateng completed a £220,000 move to Coventry City
in 1998. Under the management of Gordon Strachan
he proved himself to be a solid defensive midfielder, helping the attacking Dublin
-Huckerby
Coventry side of 1998 finish eleventh in the Premier League and enjoy mid table stability. He is still fondly remembered by Sky Blues fans as being responsible for breaking one of Coventry's longstanding hoodoo's-victory at Villa Park
: Boateng scored twice in the 4–1 win over Aston Villa
at Villa Park on 27 February 1999, ending Coventry's 63 year long wait for a league win at the ground.
The next season Boateng transferred to Aston Villa for £4.5 million. He proceeded to play 131 matches for Villa, including an FA Cup
final defeat against Chelsea
in 2000. The tough-tackling central midfielder then fell out with manager Graham Taylor
in the 2001–02
season, and that summer he completed a £5 million move to Middlesbrough.
Boateng made his full debut on the first day of the 2002–03
season away to Southampton
in an uneventful game that finished 0–0. Occupying the defensive midfield position, he became the solid platform upon which Middlesbrough built their attack. He recovered from an ankle operation in the summer of 2003 to be fit for the start of the 2003–04
season. That season, he was part of the Middlesbrough team which lifted the League Cup
for the first time.
In the 2004–05
season, he scored his first goal for Middlesbrough in a 4–0 win at Blackburn Rovers
on 16 October 2004. However, he was injured for eight weeks with a broken toe; during this period, Middlesbrough dropped from fourth down to ninth in the league. He did recover in time to help Middlesbrough obtain the results they needed for qualification for the UEFA Cup
. In a poll on the official Boro website, fans voted him the player most missed due to injury in the 2004–05 season. He started for Middlesbrough in the 2006 UEFA Cup Final
.
In June 2006 he signed a new three year contract with Middlesbrough
. He was announced as the new club captain on 21 July 2006, replacing Gareth Southgate
, who had been promoted to manager. On 10 March 2007, he scored in an FA Cup
tie against league leaders Manchester United
, his first goal in the tournament since 1999 when he scored for Coventry against Macclesfield Town.
On 22 January 2008, Boateng had his captaincy rescinded by Gareth Southgate. Southgate cited his desire for Boateng to "concentrate on his game". He was replaced as captain by Emanuel Pogatetz
.
Hull City
announced on 10 July 2008 that Boateng had agreed to sign a contract with them. The move was completed on 16 July, after the completion of a medical.
On 6 February 2010, Boateng scored his first career goal for Hull City in a 2–1 win over Manchester City
, their first win since November 2009.
Boateng's contract with Hull City came to an end following their relegation from the Premier League in 2010. He was confirmed as having left the club along with fellow former Dutch national team-mate Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
.
After holding talks with Celtic
and West Bromwich Albion
he joined Greek side Skoda Xanthi
on a two-year deal.
On 27 July 2011, it was announced that Boateng had joined Nottingham Forest
, on a one-year deal.
Boateng scored his first goal for Nottingham Forest in dramatic fashion, scoring in the 94th minute to grab Forest a point against Leicester City...
Boateng made his international debut for the Netherlands
in a 1–1 draw with Denmark
in November 2001.
|1994–95||SBV Excelsior||Eerste Divisie
||9||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||9||0
|-
!colspan="3"|SBV Excelsior Total
!9!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!9!!0
|-
|1995–96||rowspan="3"|Feyenoord||rowspan="3"|Eredivisie
||||||0||0||0||0||0||0||||
|-
|1996–97||||||0||0||0||0||0||0||||
|-
|1997–98||||||0||0||0||0||2||0||||
|-
!colspan="3"|Feyenoord Total
!68!!1!!0!!0!!0!!0!!2!!0!!70!!1
|-
|1997–98
||rowspan="2"|Coventry City
||rowspan="2"|Premier League||14||1||5||0||0||0||0||0||19||1
|-
|1998–99
||32||4||3||1||3||1||0||0||38||6
|-
!colspan="3"|Coventry City Total
!46!!5!!8!!1!!3!!1!!0!!0!!57!!7
|-
|1999–00||rowspan="4"|Aston Villa
||rowspan="4"|Premier League||33||2||5||0||7||1||0||0||45||3
|-
|2000–01
||33||1||3||0||1||0||4||0||41||1
|-
|2001–02
||37||1||1||0||2||0||8||0||48||1
|-
|2002–03
||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0||1||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Aston Villa Total
!103!!4!!9!!0!!10!!1!!13!!0!!135!!5
|-
|2002–03
||rowspan="6"|Middlesbrough
||rowspan="6"|Premier League||28||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||28||0
|-
|2003–04
||35||0||2||0||6||0||0||0||43||0
|-
|2004–05
||25||3||0||0||0||0||4||0||29||3
|-
|2005–06
||26||2||4||0||2||0||12||1||44||3
|-
|2006–07
||35||1||6||1||0||0||0||0||41||2
|-
|2007–08||33||1||3||0||2||0||0||0||38||1
|-
!colspan="3"|Middlesbrough Total
!182!!7!!15!!1!!10!!0!!16!!1!!223!!9
|-
|2008–09||rowspan="2"|Hull City
||rowspan="2"|Premier League||23||0||2||0||0||0||0||0||25||0
|-
|2009–10||29||1||1||0||1||0||0||0||31||1
|-
!colspan="3"|Hull City Total
!52!!1!!3!!0!!1!!0!!0!!0!!56!!0
|-
|2010–11
||rowspan="1"|Skoda Xanthi||rowspan="1"|Greek Superleague||19||2||0||0||0||0||0||0||19||2
|-
!colspan="3"|Skoda Xanthi Total
!19!!2!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!19!!2
|-
|2011-12
||rowspan="1"|Nottingham Forest
||Football League Championship
||3||1||0||0||0||0||1||0||4||1
|-
479||20||35||2||24||1||31||1||569||24
Stats accurate as of 12:48, 20 July 2011 (EET)
wife Adriana. Together they have two children; Eliana and Elisha. He is a devout Christian
and says the faith affects the way he conducts himself on the pitch. In an interview with Church Times
he explains how his family practices Christianity, "On Sundays, I’d drop my wife off and go to my [Ghanaian] church. Then we started going to a Dutch church together. We’ve become very devoted Christians. Hearing and acting on the Word is very important."
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
footballer who plays as a midfielder
Midfielder
A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...
for Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest F.C.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...
in The Championship
Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
.
Club career
Born in NkawkawNkawkaw
Nkawkaw is an important town in the Kwahu West District of the Eastern Region of Ghana, with an estimated population in 2010 at 53,520. The town is inhabited by the Obomeng and Atibie ethnic groups....
, Ghana
Ghana
Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
, after playing 70 games for Dutch giants Feyenoord Rotterdam
Feyenoord Rotterdam
Feyenoord is a Dutch professional football club located in Rotterdam. Along with Ajax and PSV Eindhoven, Feyenoord is one of the "big three" clubs in the Netherlands. These three clubs and Utrecht and Roda JC are the only clubs never to have been relegated from the Dutch first division...
, Boateng completed a £220,000 move to Coventry City
Coventry City F.C.
Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, are a professional English Football league club based in Coventry...
in 1998. Under the management of Gordon Strachan
Gordon Strachan
Gordon David Strachan OBE is a Scottish football manager and former player. He is currently without a club, having last managed Middlesbrough. Strachan played for Dundee, Aberdeen, Manchester United, Leeds United and Coventry City, as well as the Scotland national team. Prior to Middlesbrough,...
he proved himself to be a solid defensive midfielder, helping the attacking Dublin
Dion Dublin
Dion Dublin , is a retired English footballer. He was capped four times for England. Dublin started his career as a centre back with Norwich City, but made his name at Cambridge United as a goal-scoring centre forward. However, in his later years he showed his versatility by becoming an...
-Huckerby
Darren Huckerby
Darren Huckerby is a former English footballer who played as a forward.-Early career:Huckerby was born in Nottingham, England. His mother is of partial Georgian descent. Huckerby started playing professionally for Lincoln City, before signing for Newcastle United in a £400,000 deal in 1995...
Coventry side of 1998 finish eleventh in the Premier League and enjoy mid table stability. He is still fondly remembered by Sky Blues fans as being responsible for breaking one of Coventry's longstanding hoodoo's-victory at Villa Park
Villa Park
Villa Park may mean:United Kingdom* Villa Park, an association football stadium in Birmingham, EnglandUnited States* Villa Park, California, a small city in Orange County* Villa Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago in DuPage County...
: Boateng scored twice in the 4–1 win over Aston Villa
Aston Villa F.C.
Aston Villa Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Witton, Birmingham. The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were founder members of The Football League in 1888. They were also founder...
at Villa Park on 27 February 1999, ending Coventry's 63 year long wait for a league win at the ground.
The next season Boateng transferred to Aston Villa for £4.5 million. He proceeded to play 131 matches for Villa, including an FA Cup
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
final defeat against Chelsea
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
in 2000. The tough-tackling central midfielder then fell out with manager Graham Taylor
Graham Taylor (football manager)
Graham Taylor OBE is a football pundit, ex-football manager, and a former player. He is best known as the manager of the England national football team, as well as being manager of Watford, a club he took from the Fourth Division to the First in the space of five years, then from bottom of the...
in the 2001–02
2001-02 in English football
The 2001-02 season was the 122nd season of competitive football in England.-Arsenal cruise to title glory:In what had earlier been one of the most closely fought Premiership title races for years, Arsenal won the championship by seven points. Their crown was won in the penultimate game of the...
season, and that summer he completed a £5 million move to Middlesbrough.
Boateng made his full debut on the first day of the 2002–03
2002-03 in English football
The 2002-03 season was the 123rd season of competitive football in England.-Most Memorable rise:*Wigan Athletic marked their 25th season of Football League membership by winning the Division Two championship and reaching the league's second tier for the very first time.-Most Memorable...
season away to Southampton
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
in an uneventful game that finished 0–0. Occupying the defensive midfield position, he became the solid platform upon which Middlesbrough built their attack. He recovered from an ankle operation in the summer of 2003 to be fit for the start of the 2003–04
2003-04 in English football
The 2003-04 season was the 124th season of competitive football in England.-Overview:Arsenal completed the entire campaign without losing a single league game....
season. That season, he was part of the Middlesbrough team which lifted the League Cup
Football League Cup
The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or, from current sponsorship, the Carling Cup, is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis...
for the first time.
In the 2004–05
2004-05 in English football
The 2004–05 season was the 125th season of competitive football in England.-Overview:*2004–05 was the first season to feature the rebranded Football League. The First Division, Second Division and Third Division were renamed the Football League Championship, Football League One and Football League...
season, he scored his first goal for Middlesbrough in a 4–0 win at Blackburn Rovers
Blackburn Rovers F.C.
Blackburn Rovers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Blackburn, Lancashire. The team currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football....
on 16 October 2004. However, he was injured for eight weeks with a broken toe; during this period, Middlesbrough dropped from fourth down to ninth in the league. He did recover in time to help Middlesbrough obtain the results they needed for qualification for the UEFA Cup
UEFA Cup
The UEFA Europa League is an annual association football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1971 for eligible European football clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club football contest after the UEFA Champions League...
. In a poll on the official Boro website, fans voted him the player most missed due to injury in the 2004–05 season. He started for Middlesbrough in the 2006 UEFA Cup Final
2006 UEFA Cup Final
The 2006 UEFA Cup Final was a football match that took place at Philips Stadion, Eindhoven, on 10 May 2006. The match was contested by Middlesbrough of England and Sevilla of Spain. Sevilla won the UEFA Cup with a 4–0 win.-Match details:...
.
In June 2006 he signed a new three year contract with Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...
. He was announced as the new club captain on 21 July 2006, replacing Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate in Crawley, West Sussex is a retired English footballer and ex-manager. He is known as the "Penalty Misser of '96." He served as manager of Middlesbrough from June 2006, until he was dismissed in October 2009...
, who had been promoted to manager. On 10 March 2007, he scored in an FA Cup
FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football and is the oldest association football competition in the world. The "FA Cup" is run by and named after The Football Association and usually refers to the English men's...
tie against league leaders Manchester United
Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League. Founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, the club changed its name to Manchester United in 1902 and moved to Old Trafford in 1910.The 1958...
, his first goal in the tournament since 1999 when he scored for Coventry against Macclesfield Town.
On 22 January 2008, Boateng had his captaincy rescinded by Gareth Southgate. Southgate cited his desire for Boateng to "concentrate on his game". He was replaced as captain by Emanuel Pogatetz
Emanuel Pogatetz
Emanuel Pogatetz is an Austrian footballer who currently plays for Hannover 96 as a defender.- Club career :Pogatetz's career started at Sturm Graz before going to Kärnten and later to Bayer Leverkusen...
.
Hull City
Hull City A.F.C.
Hull City Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, founded in 1904. The club participates in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football...
announced on 10 July 2008 that Boateng had agreed to sign a contract with them. The move was completed on 16 July, after the completion of a medical.
On 6 February 2010, Boateng scored his first career goal for Hull City in a 2–1 win over Manchester City
Manchester City F.C.
Manchester City Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Manchester. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's , they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894...
, their first win since November 2009.
Boateng's contract with Hull City came to an end following their relegation from the Premier League in 2010. He was confirmed as having left the club along with fellow former Dutch national team-mate Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink
Jan Johannes Vennegoor of Hesselink is a Dutch footballer, currently playing for PSV Eindhoven. He formerly played for the Netherlands national team as a striker...
.
After holding talks with Celtic
Celtic F.C.
Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the Parkhead area of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League. The club was established in 1887, and played its first game in 1888. Celtic have won the Scottish League Championship on 42 occasions, most recently in the...
and West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion F.C.
West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or WBA, are an English Premier League association football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands...
he joined Greek side Skoda Xanthi
Skoda Xanthi
Skoda Xanthi F.C. , or F.C. Skoda Xanthi Athletic Club, is a Greek football club, based in the city of Xanthi. The club currently competes in the Super League Greece.-History:...
on a two-year deal.
On 27 July 2011, it was announced that Boateng had joined Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest F.C.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...
, on a one-year deal.
Boateng scored his first goal for Nottingham Forest in dramatic fashion, scoring in the 94th minute to grab Forest a point against Leicester City...
International career
Although born in Ghana Boateng chose to represent Netherlands at international level earning four caps in total for the Dutch.Boateng made his international debut for the Netherlands
Netherlands national football team
The Netherlands National Football Team represents the Netherlands in association football and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association , the governing body for football in the Netherlands...
in a 1–1 draw with Denmark
Denmark national football team
The Denmark national football team represents Denmark in association football and is controlled by the Danish Football Association , the governing body for the football clubs which are organized under DBU...
in November 2001.
Club
|-|1994–95||SBV Excelsior||Eerste Divisie
Eerste Divisie
The Eerste Divisie is the second-highest division of football in the Netherlands. It is linked with the top-level Eredivisie via a promotion/relegation system. It is also known as the Jupiler League due to sponsorship, which is the same name as the top league in Belgium...
||9||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||9||0
|-
!colspan="3"|SBV Excelsior Total
!9!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!9!!0
|-
|1995–96||rowspan="3"|Feyenoord||rowspan="3"|Eredivisie
Eredivisie
The Eredivisie is the highest football league in the Netherlands. The league was founded in 1956 two years after the start of professional football in the Netherlands. It is currently ranked the ninth best league in Europe by UEFA....
||||||0||0||0||0||0||0||||
|-
|1996–97||||||0||0||0||0||0||0||||
|-
|1997–98||||||0||0||0||0||2||0||||
|-
!colspan="3"|Feyenoord Total
!68!!1!!0!!0!!0!!0!!2!!0!!70!!1
|-
|1997–98
FA Premier League 1997-98
The FA Premier League 1997-98 season saw Arsenal lift their first league title since 1991, and also become only the second team to win the 'double' of the FA Cup and league title twice...
||rowspan="2"|Coventry City
Coventry City F.C.
Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, are a professional English Football league club based in Coventry...
||rowspan="2"|Premier League||14||1||5||0||0||0||0||0||19||1
|-
|1998–99
FA Premier League 1998-99
The 1998–99 FA Premier League season was the seventh season of the Premier League, the top division of English football, since its establishment in 1992. The season will always be remembered as the one in which Manchester United won a unique treble of the league title, the FA Cup and the European Cup...
||32||4||3||1||3||1||0||0||38||6
|-
!colspan="3"|Coventry City Total
!46!!5!!8!!1!!3!!1!!0!!0!!57!!7
|-
|1999–00||rowspan="4"|Aston Villa
Aston Villa F.C.
Aston Villa Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Witton, Birmingham. The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were founder members of The Football League in 1888. They were also founder...
||rowspan="4"|Premier League||33||2||5||0||7||1||0||0||45||3
|-
|2000–01
FA Premier League 2000-01
The FA Premier League 2000-01 season was the third season running which ended with Manchester United as champions and Arsenal as runners-up. Sir Alex Ferguson became the first manager to win three successive English league titles, although three teams had achieved that feat in the past - but with...
||33||1||3||0||1||0||4||0||41||1
|-
|2001–02
FA Premier League 2001-02
The 2001–02 FA Premier League season was the tenth season of the competition. It began with a new sponsor, Barclaycard, and was titled the FA Barclaycard Premiership, replacing the previous sponsor, Carling...
||37||1||1||0||2||0||8||0||48||1
|-
|2002–03
FA Premier League 2002-03
The 2002–03 FA Premier League was the eleventh season of the Premier League, the top division in English football. The first matches were played on 17 August 2002 and the last were played on 11 May 2003...
||0||0||0||0||0||0||1||0||1||0
|-
!colspan="3"|Aston Villa Total
!103!!4!!9!!0!!10!!1!!13!!0!!135!!5
|-
|2002–03
FA Premier League 2002-03
The 2002–03 FA Premier League was the eleventh season of the Premier League, the top division in English football. The first matches were played on 17 August 2002 and the last were played on 11 May 2003...
||rowspan="6"|Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...
||rowspan="6"|Premier League||28||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||28||0
|-
|2003–04
FA Premier League 2003-04
The 2003–04 FA Premier League season was the twelfth season of the Premier League. In the end, Arsenal went through the season without a single defeat – only the second ever team to do so and were crowned champions once more, at the expense of Chelsea, who had spent heavily throughout the...
||35||0||2||0||6||0||0||0||43||0
|-
|2004–05
FA Premier League 2004-05
The 2004–05 season of the FA Premier League began on 14 August 2004 and ended on 15 May 2005. Arsenal were the defending champions after going unbeaten the previous season....
||25||3||0||0||0||0||4||0||29||3
|-
|2005–06
FA Premier League 2005-06
The 2005–06 season of the FA Premier League began on 13 August 2005, and concluded on 7 May 2006. The season saw Chelsea F.C retain their title after defeating Manchester United 3–0 at Stamford Bridge towards the end of April...
||26||2||4||0||2||0||12||1||44||3
|-
|2006–07
FA Premier League 2006-07
The 2006–07 FA Premier League was the fifteenth season of the FA Premier League since its establishment in 1992. The season started on 19 August 2006 and concluded on 13 May 2007....
||35||1||6||1||0||0||0||0||41||2
|-
|2007–08||33||1||3||0||2||0||0||0||38||1
|-
!colspan="3"|Middlesbrough Total
!182!!7!!15!!1!!10!!0!!16!!1!!223!!9
|-
|2008–09||rowspan="2"|Hull City
Hull City A.F.C.
Hull City Association Football Club is an English association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, founded in 1904. The club participates in the Football League Championship, the second tier of English football...
||rowspan="2"|Premier League||23||0||2||0||0||0||0||0||25||0
|-
|2009–10||29||1||1||0||1||0||0||0||31||1
|-
!colspan="3"|Hull City Total
!52!!1!!3!!0!!1!!0!!0!!0!!56!!0
|-
|2010–11
2010–11 Super League Greece
The 2010–11 Superleague Greece was the 52nd season of the highest football league of Greece and the fifth under the name Superleague. The league consisted of 16 teams, the 13 best teams of the 2009–10 season and three teams that had been promoted from the 2009–10 Beta Ethniki.The season began on 27...
||rowspan="1"|Skoda Xanthi||rowspan="1"|Greek Superleague||19||2||0||0||0||0||0||0||19||2
|-
!colspan="3"|Skoda Xanthi Total
!19!!2!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!19!!2
|-
|2011-12
2011–12 Football League Championship
The 2011–12 Football League Championship is the eighth season of the league under its current title and nineteenth season under its current league division format....
||rowspan="1"|Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest F.C.
Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...
||Football League Championship
Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
||3||1||0||0||0||0||1||0||4||1
|-
479||20||35||2||24||1||31||1||569||24
Stats accurate as of 12:48, 20 July 2011 (EET)
Personal life
Boateng is married to his DutchDutch people
The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...
wife Adriana. Together they have two children; Eliana and Elisha. He is a devout Christian
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...
and says the faith affects the way he conducts himself on the pitch. In an interview with Church Times
Church Times
The Church Times is an independent Anglican weekly newspaper. It is published in the United Kingdom on Fridays.The Church Times was founded in 1863 to campaign for Anglo-Catholic principles and has always been independent of the Church of England hierarchy. It was a family concern The Church Times...
he explains how his family practices Christianity, "On Sundays, I’d drop my wife off and go to my [Ghanaian] church. Then we started going to a Dutch church together. We’ve become very devoted Christians. Hearing and acting on the Word is very important."