Jerome Boateng is a German footballer playing for Bayern Munich. This year he turned 28 years old, so that he is in the prime of life and at the peak of his career. Jerome Boateng acts as the central defender, if necessary, he can also play on the right flank of the defense.
Carier start
Jerome Boateng was born on September 3, 1988 in the capital of Germany, Berlin, where from the age of six he began playing football at the academy of the local small club “Tennis Borussia”. There he spent the whole eight years, until in 2002 he went through a viewing at the Berlin Hertha. He was accepted there, and until 2006 he played for the club’s youth teams, and when he was eighteen years old, they signed a professional contract with him. However, Jerome Boateng did not stay long at Hertha - in the summer of 2007, when he played only 11 matches for the team, Hamburg acquired it for one million euros.
Going to Hamburg
In the new club Jerome Boateng, whose biography from the first years in professional sports was saturated, was not always a base player, but managed to play 113 matches in three years. In 2010, he was noticed by the English club Manchester City, which paid him 12 and a half million euros, and Jerome set off to conquer Misty Albion.
Relocation to England
Unfortunately, in England, Boateng didn’t work out - for the whole season he spent only 24 matches, so Manchester decided to get rid of him right away. The potential in Boateng was seen by Munich Bavaria, which broke up with 13 and a half million euros to acquire a young German. Then the club was criticized by many because they believed that Boateng was a player of too low a level who could not gain a foothold even in Manchester City. However, Jerome managed to prove to everyone that they were wrong.
The heyday of Bavaria
From the very first season, Boateng became a base player in Bavaria - moreover, he began to progress at an incredible pace, and in 2013 he was considered a player of the highest class. The Bavaria treble helped this especially - the club won the German Championship, the German Cup and the Champions League in one season. Jerome has already completed five full seasons at the Munich club, during which he played 206 matches and scored six goals. During this time, he became one of the strongest central defenders in the world. In the current season, Boateng has played only 12 matches due to a serious injury, from which he will recover no earlier than March 2017. However, this does not prevent him from remaining one of the leaders of Bayern Munich and the German national team.