Plan after end of career
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After the end of his player career, Jérôme Boateng wants to take the coaching career. “I want to become a coach in professional football. I recently successfully completed the course and examination for the B license. Now I would like to do the A license and football teacher and start as an assistant coach at an association as soon as possible,” said the 2014 world champion of “Welt am Sonntag”.
In November 2024, Boateng received the trainer B license in a special course of the Bavarian Football Association (BFV). Before the examination, he was “a bit excited, of course”, he said at the time, according to the BFV. Boateng announced on Friday evening on social media that he would no longer play professional football. “Football gave me a lot,” said the 37-year-old in a video that shows pictures and excerpts from his career. “I learned, won and lost.”
Boateng talks about dark sides off the square
He has thought about this step since June, the former defender revealed. “I could have played even longer. But then it would have been primarily about my enjoyment of the past few years as a player. I prefer to make room for young players and concentrate on a new phase of life.” He reached his highest market value in the FC Bayern jersey with 45 million euros each in 2016 and 2018 – after 611 games at club level, 76 games for the national team and 36 missions for the youth teams of the DFB.
Boateng also commented on the investigation against him because of the allegation of assault on his former friend Kasia Lenhardt, who was hired by the Munich I public prosecutor in March. Boateng denied having ever beaten a woman.
Jérôme Boateng: Brother Kevin-Prince has apologized
Boateng said that I was warned about the warning by the Munich I District Court in 2024 in 2024: “I was warned because I injured my ex-girlfriend in the course of a dispute at the eye, and I would like to emphasize that she first injured me on the lip.
Half-brother Kevin-Prince Boateng (38), who was also successful as a football professional and ended his career at Hertha BSC in the summer of 2023, had publicly distanced himself from Jérôme because of the allegations. “We met for a conversation some time ago. He apologized to me for the said statements. And revealed to me that he hit me out of years of envy,” said Jérôme Boateng. He had accepted the apology, but neither of them would be in contact.
Great success – but most recently hardly on the scene
The winning of the World Cup title with the German national team in Brazil eleven years ago was the greatest success in the career of the Berlin-born and the triple with Bayern in the 2012/13 and 2019/20. At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, he had played with the DFB team against his half-brother Kevin-Prince, who ran for Ghana. In 2016 he was recognized as Germany’s footballer of the year.
Boateng gave his Bundesliga debut for Hertha BSC in January 2007. With FC Bayern Munich, for which he played for a total of ten years, the defensive man won nine German championship titles, twice the Champions League and five times the DFB Cup. After leaving the Munich in 2021, it was increasingly calmer about Boateng. He still played for Olympique Lyon, Us Salernitana and most recently the Linz ASK. In August, Boateng had dissolved his contract that was originally running in Linz until 2026 – after 14 competitive games for the club.