George Boateng (soccer player, 1975)
| George Boateng | ||
 Boateng playing Middlesbrough FC (2008)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | 5th September 1975 | |
| place of birth | Nkawkaw , Ghana | |
| size | 182 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1994-1995 | Excelsior Rotterdam | 9 (0) |
| 1995-1997 | Feyenoord Rotterdam | 68 (1) |
| 1997-1999 | Coventry City | 47 (5) |
| 1999-2002 | Aston Villa | 103 (4) |
| 2002-2008 | Middlesbrough FC | 182 (7) |
| 2008-2010 | Hull City | 52 (1) |
| 2010-2011 | Skoda Xanthi | 19 (2) |
| 2011–2012 | Nottingham Forest | 5 (1) |
| 2012-2013 | UPB-MyTeam FC | ? (?) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| Netherlands U-21 | 18 (?) | |
| 2001-2006 | Netherlands | 4 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2014-2015 | Kelantan FA | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
George Boateng (born September 5, 1975 in Nkawkaw , Ghana ) is a former Dutch football player and current coach of Ghanaian origin, who was most recently under contract with Kelantan FA in Malaysia . After starting his career in the Netherlands, Boateng moved to the English Premier League , where he played 384 games for Coventry City , Aston Villa , Middlesbrough FC and Hull City from 1997 to 2010 . The four-time Dutch international's greatest successes were winning the 2004 English League Cup and reaching the 2006 UEFA Cup final.
Career
Started his career in the Netherlands and established himself in the Premier League until 2002
Boateng from Ghana started his professional career in the 1994/95 season at Excelsior Rotterdam and made nine appearances in the second-class Eerste Divisie . In the summer of 1995 he moved to the leading Rotterdam club Feyenoord , which had a partnership with Excelsior. Boateng established himself as a regular player in his first season at Feyenoord, but he was denied a title win. Half a year before his contract expired, he left the Eredivisie in December 1997 and moved to the English first division club Coventry City for a transfer fee of € 250,000 .
The then reigning captain of the Dutch U-21 national team immediately established himself in the regular team at Coventry. As a clearer and distributor of the ball in midfield, he was a decisive factor in Coventry's early release from the relegation battle and the 1997/98 Premier League finished eleventh in the table. In the 1998/99 season , Boateng was unable to match his form from the previous season and temporarily lost his place in midfield to the Belgian Philippe Clement in November . At the turn of the year he was ordered by coach Gordon Strachan into right midfield, a position in which Boateng continued to show mostly high stakes and scored in the victories against Liverpool FC , Aston Villa and Southampton FC , but in April after a listless Appearance publicly stated that I prefer to run in the central midfield.
A few weeks later he was brought by John Gregory for a transfer fee of £ 4.5 million to league rivals Aston Villa . There, too, Boateng was initially used in the right midfield, only after an injury to Dion Dublin did he move to the preferred sixth position and subsequently belonged to the top performers of the Villa-Elf. In addition to rank 6 in the Premier League season 1999/2000 , he reached the semi-finals of the League Cup with Villa , in which Leicester City was defeated, and the climax was the final of the FA Cup 1999/2000 , the last in Wembley Stadium before its new building , in which Chelsea FC won 1-0. Boateng remained a fixture in the Aston Villa team in the following two seasons and made his debut for the Dutch senior team on November 10, 2001 in a friendly against Denmark . Disagreements with Graham Taylor , who took over as coach in February 2002, ultimately led to Boateng's departure in the summer of 2002.
Successes with Middlesbrough, 2002-2008
Steve McClaren , Middlesbrough FC coach , the 27-year-old Dutchman's services were worth £ 5m. Boateng was also a regular in central midfield in Middlesbrough and spent the most successful years in the club's history with the club. In 2004, the team won the League Cup with a 2-1 win over Bolton Wanderers and thus the club's first national title; The club's supporters subsequently voted him “Player of the Year”. By winning the title, the club was also eligible for a European competition for the first time and advanced to the round of 16 in the 2004/05 UEFA Cup . With a seventh place in the Premier League 2004/05 , the best championship placement in 30 years, they qualified for the UEFA Cup 2005/06 and reached the knockout stage as group winners. There they first eliminated VfB Stuttgart and AS Rom by the away goals rule and then turned 3-0 down against FC Basel (quarter-finals) and Steaua Bucharest (semi-finals) and thus made it into a European cup final for the first time. In the Philips Stadium of Eindhoven , the Spanish representatives proved Sevilla too strong and won the title by a 4: 0 win. The international appearances brought the national coach's focus again, in December 2005 Boateng came back to an international match for the first time since February 2002 and also played in a preparatory game for the 2006 World Cup against Ecuador in March 2006 . In the favor of the national coaches Boateng did not get past players like Phillip Cocu , Edgar Davids , Paul Bosvelt or Mark van Bommel in the course of his career and was not considered for the 2006 World Cup.
For the Premier League 2006/07 , the previous team captain Gareth Southgate took over the coaching position at Boro and handed over the captain's armband to Boateng. Even under his former teammate Southgate, Boateng was one of the pillars of the team with his strength in tackling and passing security, but the success of previous seasons was not repeated. After it should have come to a training dispute between Southgate and Boateng in January 2008, the coach relieved Boateng of his captaincy and thus heralded the departure of the midfielder at the end of the season.
Relegation battle with Hull and move to Greece, 2008–2011
First division promoted Hull City secured Boateng in the summer of 2008 for a million pounds transfer fee. The newcomer to the league, first class in the club's 104-year history, started the Premier League in 2008/09 with a high flight and after the ninth matchday was third with 20 points, the highlight of the season opener was a 2-1 win at Arsenal . On the following ten game days until the start of the second half of the season, only seven points were added. The turning point of the season was a 5-1 defeat (halftime score 0-4) at Manchester City on Matchday 19, when coach Phil Brown decided to hold the halftime speech on the field right in front of the traveling fans. In the second half of the season, which Boateng largely missed due to injury, the team only scored eight more points and, with 35 points, was one point ahead of the first relegation place. In the following season the results of the team hardly improved, the whole season in the relegation battle between Brown and Boateng after a 1: 6 defeat on matchday 7 against Liverpool FC already fell into a rift. Boateng, who wore the captain's armband in the game as the representative of the long-injured Ian Ashbee , was blamed by Brown for the high defeat and was not considered for a month. Even under Brown's successor Iain Dowie , who took over the team on Matchday 31 and made Boateng captain again, the trend reversal was no longer successful and Boateng ended a season on a relegation zone for the first time.
He decided not to stay in England during the season break - among other things, first division promoted West Bromwich Albion had expressed interest - but after 13 seasons in the Premier League he switched to the Greek first division club Skoda Xanthi . At the time of his departure, Boateng was a non-British record player with 384 Premier League appearances, only the two goalkeepers Mark Schwarzer (Australia) and Shay Given (Ireland) played more games than foreigners in the English elite class created in 1992. His stay in Greece lasted only a year, after 19 appearances and two goals he left the club in the summer of 2011.
Return to England since 2011
Boateng kept fit in the consequence at professional clubs in England and was directed by his former Middlesbrough coach Steve McClaren to the English second division Nottingham Forest , where he signed a one-year contract. However, after he was used in only five games, his contract was not extended after the end of the season. After several months without a club, Boateng moved to Malaysia for UPB-MyTeam FC in November .
successes
Web links
- George Boateng in the soccerbase.com database
- Player profile at Ronalds Voetbalstatistieken
- George Boateng in the database of weltfussball.de
- George Boateng in the voetbalstats.nl database (Dutch)
- Profile on premierleague.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1998-99 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1998, ISBN 1-85291-588-9 , pp. 38 .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 1999-2000 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 1999, ISBN 1-85291-607-9 , pp. 38 .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The 2000-2001 Official PFA Footballers' Factfile . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2000, ISBN 1-85291-626-5 , pp. 39 .
- ↑ Villa Stars's Boss Clash , Sunday Mercury, May 19, 2002
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2004/2005 . Queen Anne Press, Harpenden 2004, ISBN 1-85291-660-5 , pp. 48 .
- ↑ Barry J. Hugman (Ed.): The PFA Footballers' Who's Who 2008-09 . Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh 2008, ISBN 978-1-84596-324-8 , pp. 55 .
- ↑ George Boateng exclusive ( Memento from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Boateng moves to Greece , Sky Sports
- ↑ George Boateng completes Nottingham Forest transfer (BBC Sport)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Boateng, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th September 1975 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nkawkaw , Ghana |