Jérôme Boateng

German association football player · Germany · Footballers · Born 1988 · age 38

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Jérôme Agyenim Boateng is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

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2024LASK LinzClub2024-2025U.S. Salernitana 1919Club2020“But when I heard those monkey noises in January 2013, all the pain, all the sadness - it all came out. I snapped. I didn’t care if I got in trouble.”In their words23 June 2020To My White Brothers and Sisters,THEPLAYERSTRIBUNE,(June 23, 2020)Read the whole statement

2016German Footballer of the YearAwardMoses-Mendelssohn-PreisAward2011FC Bayern MunichClub2011-20212010Manchester City F.C.Club2010-20112007Hamburger SVClub2007-2010Hertha BSCClub2006Germany national under-17 association football teamClubHertha BSC IIClub2006-20072005Germany national under-17 association football teamClub2004Germany national under-17 association football teamClub2004-20051988Born3 September 1988

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Boateng with Hamburger SV in 2009

Boateng (right) playing for Bayern in the 2012 UEFA Champions League Final

Boateng playing for Bayern Munich in 2012

Boateng lining up for Germany with Mario Götze (left) and Mesut Özil (right) prior to a match in 2011

Boateng challenging Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal during a UEFA Euro 2012 group stage match

Fred and Boateng battling for the ball in the 2014 World Cup semi-final between Brazil and Germany

Boateng in 2017

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Jérôme Boateng

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But when I heard those monkey noises in January 2013, all the pain, all the sadness - it all came out. I snapped. I didn’t care if I got in trouble.
Jun 23, 2020, To My White Brothers and Sisters,THEPLAYERSTRIBUNE,(June 23, 2020), Own words
They knew what was happening to me. They heard the racism - and they just accepted it. The parents stayed quiet. The referee? Nothing. The coach? “Just ignore it.
, Own words
So I did. I stored my anger inside. I became numb to it.
, Own words