Kelvin Prince Boateng is an outstanding footballer, but not one of the best Ghana has ever seen.
His trait makes it even more of a shame that he cannot control his 'unkindness,' 'truculence' and 'mocking cruelty' that continue to tarnish his talent.
Those traits were never more evident than in his assassination of Coach Kwasi Appiah last week. He committed an appalling act of deception that deserves every heap of response.
Interviewed by Sky Italia few days ago, Boateng said "I think Appiah had a problem with me and was only looking for a reason to send me away. To be honest I was thrown out." Boateng's comment was a farcical accusation after his weird character led to his sack from the Black Stars camp at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Its baffling for Boateng to attempt to deceive people with such a wondrously indignant expression when he had consistently abused Appiah and twice said f**k off to the gaffer in Brazil. He is controversial, polarising, and speak his mind. Nothing wrong with that, I’m exactly the same.
However, there’s a fine line between being entertainingly outrageous, and just being disgusting, and in the past week he has not just crossed that line, he smashed it to Appiah in his desperation and frustration as a footballer. Boateng’s pathetic attempt to belittle Appiah by singling him out from among the Ghana World Cup contingent said a lot more about him than it did about his intended victim.
He has behaved in a ‘pathetic, petty and woefully insensitive’ manner by still passing harmful statements to humiliate Kwasi Appiah. It looks as though Boateng’s club career is bogged by his bad attitude in Brazil hence, he had planned a drive to smear Appiah for clean face.
If that is true, he is made yet another error of judgment. He has driven at the core of contemptible falsehood, albeit in a very self-determined, personal, way. Maybe it is just ignorance, which is Boateng’s problem here; maybe he doesn’t understand the obstacles Appiah had to overcome by proving his courage in the game a million times before throwing such ‘truant’ - Boateng in his team.
Maybe Boateng doesn’t know that Appiah was always prepared to take a gamble with him; maybe Boateng doesn’t know that Appiah routinely had to put up with a section of the fans and media screaming abuse into his face, when he failed to come to Ghana but to choose to join the team in Europe – Holland, before the World Cup.
Maybe Boateng doesn’t understand that Appiah overcame all that; maybe Boateng doesn’t understand that Appiah triumphed over his 'gang' strange-minded, Neanderthal, hate-filled and fear-filled bullies, to forge an outstanding personal decision to still keep them in his squad.
Maybe Boateng doesn’t understand that one reason Appiah lost his job was because of his despicable politics, his ridiculous bizarre attitude with his ‘gang’, who promoted grotesque misunderstanding to destroy team spirit at the camp.
But in all this Appiah has never publicly taunt Boateng and his 'gang': That’s love for you.
Perhaps Boateng had just implied to make up such story to smear a once revered national icon - Appiah. As so often, he offered no explanation for his incendiary comment. He just stuck it out to ignite a media firestorm and help flog his broken dejected image in Ghana and his homeland Germany, where he was rejected like Lucifer since, the Dutch cannot condone such ‘brainless’ traits.
Boateng, a nice, decent young footballer who like his brother, Jerome Boateng had a bright future but he systematic and unpleasantly ruined it with blizzard of vile slur anger and preposterous lifestyle.
In a portion of his autobiography reported SportBild, 'he is admitted drinking too much and all the time chasing women.
Boateng also admitted he refused to take advice from Didier Drogba because he wasn’t open to good advice.'
Continuing to talk against Appiah whilst forgetting he could never dare to tell a German Head Coach like Joachim Loew - who won't entertain such guff - to f**k off, is shameful disgrace and I hope he denounce such hopeless interviews.
Boateng must avoid the overwhelming temptation to slag off his former boss. It just makes him look petty and bitter. That's a real tragedy.
Now, it's too late to get a recall to the Black Stars. His career is over in a pile-up of epic proportions. Boateng may never re-emerge from the wreckage. He is failed to issue a public statement to condemn his attitude and seek forgiveness from Ghanaians.
Its shameful that he is ignorant of the fact that his attitude in Brazil suffered Ghanaian tax payers pain. He is full of himself and has no knowledge of how the Brazil disaster has caused many their image, political ambition and vision in football.
Indeed, his cheap shot at Appiah is absurd, pretentious, self – reverential, self – congratulatory and superfluous chunk of dishonest bombast.
Ghana Football needs men of Honor. It needs people like Kwasi Appiah; people who will not be cowed by men like KP Boateng and their shameful cheap shots.
Source: Economistgh.com