George boateng biography
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George Boateng
Ghanaian-born Dutch footballer (born 1975)
George Antwi Boateng (born 5 September 1975) is a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
After making his breakthrough with Feyenoord in the Dutch Eredivisie, he spent most of his career in England, making 384 Premier League appearances and scoring 17 goals. He played for Coventry City, Aston Villa, Middlesbrough and Hull City, winning the Football League Cup with Middlesbrough in 2004.
Born in Ghana and raised in the Netherlands, Boateng made four appearances for the Netherlands national team.
Club career
[edit]Feyenoord
[edit]Boateng was born in Nkawkaw, Ghana. He spent some of his childhood in the Ghanaian capital Accra, where he chose to play football barefoot despite having boots and the pitches being rocky. He was raised in the Netherlands from the age of 10 after his father remarried. At 16 he signed for Feyenoord, where he was a utility player, being used in all positions except goalkeeper, left winger and centre forward.[2][3]
Coventry City
[edit]Boateng watched a 4–3 game between Liverpool and Newcastle United in April 1996, which convinced him about the quality of English football.[2] With six months left of his Feyenoord contra
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George Boateng
SOCCER PLAYER
1975 - Today
George Boateng
George Antwi Boateng (born 5 September 1975) is a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. After making his breakthrough with Feyenoord in the Dutch Eredivisie, he spent most of his career in England, making 384 Premier League appearances and scoring 17 goals. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Boateng has received more than 583,356 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. George Boateng is the 11,619th most popular soccer player (down from 8,206th in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Ghana (down from 54th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Ghanaian Soccer Player.
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Among SOCCER PLAYERS
Among soccer players, George Boateng ranks 11,619 out of 21,273. Before him are Takahiro Endo, John Alvbåge, Bruno Zuculini, Cristián Castañeda, Daley Sinkgraven, and Ian Botham. After him are Shaun Goater, Luis Ernesto Michel, Fahed Attal, Lulinha, Hendry Thomas, and Dario Dainelli.
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- Date of birth/Age: Sep 5, 1975 (49)
- Place be unable to find birth: Nkawkaw
- Citizenship: Holland
- Height: 1,76 m
- Position: Defensive Midfield