George Boateng
Boateng playing for Middlesbrough in 2008
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | George Boateng | ||
| Date of birth | 5 September 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Nkawkaw, Ghana | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defensive Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1995 | Excelsior | 9 | (0) |
| 1995–1998 | Feyenoord | 68 | (1) |
| 1998–1999 | Coventry City | 46 | (5) |
| 1999–2002 | Aston Villa | 103 | (4) |
| 2002–2008 | Middlesbrough | 182 | (7) |
| 2008–2010 | Hull City | 52 | (1) |
| 2010–2011 | Skoda Xanthi | 19 | (2) |
| 2011–2012 | Nottingham Forest | 5 | (1) |
| 2012–2013 | T-Team | 20 | (4) |
| Total | 504 | (25) | |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1995–1998 | Netherlands U21 | 18 | (0) |
| 2001–2006 | Netherlands | 4 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2014–2015 | Kelantan FA | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of April 25, 2014. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16 July 2008 |
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George Boateng (born 5 September 1975) is a former Dutch footballer who is of Ghanaian descent. He is currently the technical director of Kelantan FA playing in Malaysia Super League.
Born in Nkawkaw, 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. After a move to Liverpool collapsed due to demands from agents, and in spite of interest from Fulham, that summer Boateng 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.
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