About the European Football Championship: Kevin

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Kevin-Prince Boateng

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Kevin-Prince Boateng becomes a football expert at ARD for the EM in the summer.

The former Bundesliga player will complement the team with world champion Bastian Schweinsteiger, Olympic champion Almuth Schult and ex-professional Thomas Broich, announced the ARD.

The 34-year-old brother of 2014 world champion Jérôme Boateng should analyze the games of the European Championship finals, which begins on June 11, for the sports show.

Born in Berlin and former Ghanaian national player, he is currently under contract with Serie B team AC Monza in Italy.

"I've seen just about everything," says Boateng in an introductory clip that is a little over a minute long.

In it he looks back on his eventful career and flirts with his bad boy image.

"I've played my way from the streets of Berlin to San Siro," he says: "I'm a brother, a bad boy and a leader - but always with a heart."

In his career Boateng was under contract with 14 clubs.

"Until now," he says in the video.

In the Bundesliga he played for Hertha BSC, Borussia Dortmund, Schalke 04 and Eintracht Frankfurt, and won the DFB Cup with Hessen in 2018.

He also played in England, Italy, Spain and Turkey.

He was also at two World Cup finals for Ghana.

Next to the square, Boateng stood out with his commitment against racism.

In 2013 he left the field during a friendly with AC Milan, after having been racially insulted by the ranks before.

Thereupon the UN appointed Boateng as ambassador in the fight against racism;

he was also involved in the subject in the following years.

Around the 2010 World Cup, Boateng had the image of the "bad guy of the nation" in Germany after he had injured Chelsea's Michael Ballack in a foul in the English FA Cup final with Portsmouth.

Ballack then dropped out for the World Cup in South Africa, where the German team knocked out England and Argentina and finished third.

That duel with Ballack also appears in the ARD video.

"I distributed a lot, but also had to take a lot," says Boateng.

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