Maier: “Kevin-Prince Boateng is a role model for every player”

At the age of 34 Kevin-Prince Boateng returned to his footballing roots in Berlin, to Hertha BSC. There the midfielder conveys a certain spirit of optimism through his presence. Teammate Arne Maier raves about the leader Boateng.

Arne Maier from Hertha BSC currently thinks he is with the German selection at the Olympic Games. His thoughts, however, are always waving back to his home in Berlin, where this summer the midfielder, who was recently on loan to Arminia Bielefeld, is facing a radical change with the new sports director Fredi Bobic. That upheaval also brought Kevin-Prince Boateng back to his youth club, where he made his professional debut in 2005 and has since played for twelve other clubs, in the Bundesliga Borussia Dortmund, FC Schalke 04, and Eintracht Frankfurt.

At Hertha, Boateng is planned as a leading player, Fredi Bobic brought him to Eintracht Frankfurt in 2017, where both were cup winners together a year later and Boateng left the club. After 14 years, the 34-year-old left his first scent marks in Berlin in the first few weeks. “You have already seen what he can do in training and the test matches. Personally, I am very happy that he is with us,” enthused Arne Maier when asked by fussball.news at a digital media round.

Maier looks up to Boateng: “I think Prince Boateng is a role model for every player. Not only for me because he plays in my position, but for all players. He has played in the biggest stadiums in Europe.” The spirit of optimism created by the return of the globetrotter is felt by Maier, who, when Boateng left Hertha BSC in 2007, joined the youth department of Berlin at the age of eight: “Of course, it is very much for us, for the city, for the club, It is a great honor that he will play for us again. He will help us. ” And then? “After Hertha it’s over for him, as he announced.” But until then, Maier also wants to learn a lot from Prince.