With Monday's announcement that Michael Ballack will not be able to captain the German squad in the World Cup, Germany's chances in South Africa this summer have taken a real blow. Ballack went down ...

ERASMIA, South Africa — Kevin-Prince Boateng will not be a target for Germany when it meets Ghana in a decisive Group D match at the World Cup. The man who brought down Germany captain Michael Ballack ...

MUNICH (Reuters) -- Germany's new 'public enemy number one' Kevin-Prince Boateng apologized on Tuesday for dashing Germany captain Michael Ballack's World Cup MUNICH (Reuters) -- Germany's new 'public ...

FRANKFURTFRANKFURT — Germany captain Michael Ballack will miss the World Cup because of torn ligaments in his right ankle, a serious blow to the three-time champions less than a month before the ...

The 2009/2010 FA Cup final between Michael Ballack's Chelsea and Kevin Prince Boateng's Portsmouth was an eventful one, and one that will definitely have an effect on Group D at the 2010 World Cup.

German skipper Michael Ballack could still be fit enough to captain Germany in the World Cup despite injuring his right ankle in the FA Cup final against Portsmouth on Saturday. Ballack was ...

[LNB]Portsmouth midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng has hit back at accusations that he intentionally injured Michael Ballack in last Saturday's FA Cup final, saying the Germany captain was the chief ...

This Sunday marks the anniversary of an English game that changed German soccer forever. It wasn't just Kevin Prince Boateng's boot and Michael Ballack's ankle that collided on the Wembley pitch on ...

Jamie O'Hara insists Portsmouth midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng did not set out to wreck Germany star Michael Ballack's World Cup dreams.[LNB] A crunching tackle late in the first half of Saturday's ...

"You've scored one goal," Michael Ballack, an all-time great midfielder for Bayern Munich, said to Boateng in 2006, an unproven but exceedingly gifted Hertha Berlin teenager. "And you [already] think ...

MUNICH (Reuters) - Germany's new "public enemy number one" Kevin-Prince Boateng apologised on Tuesday for dashing Germany captain Michael Ballack's World Cup hopes with a hard tackle that ruled him ...