Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng responded to controversial comments made by German politician Alexander Gauland.
While he declined to go into more detail, Jerome Boateng said he was left saddened after hearing Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) politician Alexander Gauland's controversial comments toward him.
Gauland, the deputy leader of the anti-immigration party, was quoted by newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung as saying "people like Boateng as a footballer, but wouldn't want to live next to someone like him" in an apparent reference to the Bayern Munich defender's foreign roots.
Boateng was born in Berlin to a German mother and Ghanaian father, and has represented the German national team over 50 times since 2009, including the successful 2014 World Cup campaign.