Legends: Kevin-Prince Boateng

Kevin-Prince Boateng was born 6 March 1987. He s a German-born Ghanaian professional footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Milan. Boateng made his first team debut against Eintracht Frankfurt in the second round of the 2005–06 Bundesliga season, being brought on at the beginning of the second half, he then impressed during the game, and was on the fringe of the first team from then on, despite barely being 18 years old at the time. Boateng continued his rise, and started his first Bundesliga match in the 2–2 draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the 14th round of the Bundesliga season.

Earlier on in his career, Boateng developed a serious shopping addiction as a result of personal problems. Boateng claims that he still owns "around 100 59Fifty caps and 100 Billionaire Boys Club caps, around 20 Martin Margiela leather jackets, and 160 pairs of Berluti shoes" following the ordeal. Other things the footballer is known to have bought include a Lamborghini Aventador and a Lamborghini Murciélago, a Hummer H3, and a Cadillac CTS-V. Boateng has since overcome this problem and sold all four of his cars, citing how he, "was broken in another world" due to the effects of it. Boateng calls himself "The Ghetto Kid" because he was brought up in the poor Wedding locality of Berlin. In official documents, his name is given as Kevin Boateng, but he prefers the name Prince and Kevin-Prince in honour of his father, Prince Boateng, Sr. He married his long term girlfriend Jennifer two days after signing with Tottenham Hotspur. Boateng has 26 tattoos. In September 2011, Boateng divorced his German wife Jennifer, ending their four-year marriage, and since the start of October 2011, he has been dating Italian-American model Melissa Satta. Following Boateng's divorce, his ex-wife returned to Germany with their son, Jermaine-Prince. 

On 23 November, Boateng scored a spectacular goal in a Champions League match against F.C. Barcelona at the San Siro. On 15 February, Boateng scored the opening goal in a 4–0 home win against Arsenal at the San Siro in the Round of 16 of UEFA Champions League 2011-12. 

Boateng has a Ghanaian father and a German mother. His father, Prince Boateng, Sr., left Ghana in 1981 hoping for a break in Germany, where he wanted to study administration, however was unsuccessful and he ended up disc jockeying and working as a waiter. Boateng was one-and-a-half-years-old when his father left the family home. His mother, Catherine Boateng, ended up working long hours to take care of Boateng and his brother George. His uncle, Robert Boateng is a former member of the Ghana national team and his maternal grandfather is a cousin of legendary German football star Helmut Rahn, scorer of the winning goal in the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final. As well as Boateng's brothers, George and Jérôme, he has one sister, Avelina. Both brothers are football players, with the youngest of the two brothers, Jérôme, also having previously been at Hertha BSC and now playing with Bayern Munich and the German national team.
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