Freshly retired from the football fields, Kevin Prince Boateng confides. In an interview revealed recently, the Berlin native shared a tasty anecdote from the time when he played for FC Barcelona.
« I always had to answer Messi »
After eighteen seasons played professionally, Kevin Prince Boateng retired last Augustr. His last club was Herta Berlin, with whom the attacking midfielder played for two seasons. It is in this context that the thirty-six-year-old man spoke to the microphone of Rio Ferdinandd for the podcast Five. Loaned by Sassuolo to FC Barcelona for six months in January 2019, the Ghanaian international did not only played four games within the Catalan club. Asked about his visit to Catalonia, Boateng declared, in comments transcribed by RMC Sport :
« When people asked me who the best player in the world was, I always had to answer Messi. This was one of my biggest lies because I always like to tell the truthbut I had to lie about that one to be able to play at Camp Nou. »
The international with sixteen caps with Ghana concludes by evoking the rivalry between Messi and Ronaldo: “ Messi asked me how difficult it was to score in Italy because Cristiano Ronaldo was there at the time. I told him it was very difficult, and yet Cristiano scored in every match for three years! »
2023-10-05 09:44:07
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