Jérôme Boateng

Jérôme Boateng is the kind of defender I find easy to respect. At 192 cm, he anchored back lines with a blend of physical presence and intelligent reading of the game, earning German Footballer of the Year in 2016. What I like most is the trajectory, rising through Hertha BSC's youth ranks to the top of the sport. Centre-backs rarely get the spotlight, but teams with a calm, commanding figure behind them simply feel safer. I tend to value the last line of defence over the glamour up front, and Boateng was, at his peak, one of the more complete examples of that role.

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Name (English)

Jérôme Boateng

Name (Japanese)

ジェローム・ボアテング

Reading

じぇろーむ・ぼあてんぐ

Born

September 3, 1988 (age 38)

Origin

West Berlin, Germany

Height

192 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Dragon

Awards & achievements

• Silbernes Lorbeerblatt
• 2016 Moses-Mendelssohn-Preis
• 2016 German Footballer of the Year

• Official sitehttp://www.jboateng.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jeromeboateng/
• Xhttps://x.com/JB17Official
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me%20Boateng
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A2%E3%83%86%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151260

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

September 23, 2026

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