Kevin-Prince Boateng has no regrets over choosing Ghana over Germany

Barcelona forward Kevin-Prince Boateng has said that he has no regrets over choosing Ghana over Germany at the international level. The 31-year-old started with the German side at the youth level but he thereafter switched his allegiance to the country of his father’s birth before the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.

Boateng’s international career has been shortlived, however, with him not featuring for the Black Stars since the suspension at the 2014 World Cup but he still has no regrets regarding the decision, he told Sky Italia: "I did some things when I was young, of course I'm not very proud of today. Although they are part of me, they were not very positive. In Germany there are many ‘straight’, very correct, and they did not much like my behaviour. So I saw the really long way to get into [Joachim] Löw's plans, so I said to myself. They want me in Ghana and I want to play for the National team. And in the end I made a very right choice."

“Boateng was one of the many players instrumental towards Ghana’s surprise journey“ to the quarter-final of the 2010 World Cup and they could not cross the hurdle thereafter with the penalty shoot-out defeat to Uruguay which was controversial for the actions of Luis Suarez. Meanwhile, Boateng has not earned much silverware during his club career but he has the opportunity to enjoy good success this term after making the surprise “mid-season move to Barcelona“.

The Ghanaian’s loan move to the Camp Nou was certainly not on the cards but the need to occasionally rest Luis Suarez from the centre-forward duties meant that the Catalan club took the gamble with Boateng. The former Hertha BSC graduate has made just two starts for the Blaugrana since the shock transfer last month.