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Kevin-Prince Boateng: Buying three cars in one day didn't make me happy

Kevin-Prince Boateng has admitted he treated football for its lavish lifestyle and didn't focus on the job.

The nomadic forward has had various spells in Germany, England, Italy and Spain, but didn’t settle down for the long term.

“I’ll go back and say: I didn’t treat football as a job,” Boateng told La Repubblica.

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“I was an idiot. I had talent, but I trained the bare minimum, an hour on the field. I was the last to arrive and the first to leave. I’d be out with friends.