The Portsmouth midfielder went in late on the Germany captain in the FA Cup final to end his world cup hopes and deny Germany, one of Ghana's group opponents in the group stages of their talisman.
The fact that Boateng has switched his allegiance to Ghana after being consistently overlooked by Germany, the country of his birth has also led to suggestion he meant to injure Ballack ahead of the World Cup.
But he denies that. "I am sorry, there was no intent to harm Ballack," Boateng said. "I was late and hit him with full force. The tackle looks very stupid."
Boateng's apology as his father Prince Boateng jumped to his son's aide amidst bad press in Germany. "Kevin's the whipping boy once again. It's always twice as bad when anything happens with a Boateng", he told the Hamburg Morning Post. "It upsets me a lot. But you have to look at the whole story. [In 2006] Kevin had just scored his first goal for Hertha [Berlin].
"Then they played against Bayern Munich. He had an argument with Ballack. Ballack said to him. 'You've scored one goal, and you think you are the best'. Kevin has never forgotten that.
"Unfortunately, Kevin isn't very diplomatic. But I am sure, even if he did foul Ballack, he didn't mean to injure him."
But while the tackle has turned Boateng into something of a hate figure in Germany, it has sky rocketed his popularity ratings in Ghana even further. The biggest selling sports paper the Graphic Sports wrote in it's editorial that while it felt sorry for the untimely predicament to Ballack and Germany, Boateng had struck a crucial psychological blow for the Black Stars.
"For those Ghanaians looking for a fearless, manly, abrasive and combative midfield operator in the Stars midfield, Kevin-Prince Boateng must be that figure and could not have come at a better time," the paper wrote.
The drama is bound to add even more spice to the meeting between Ghana and Germany on June 23 which could see Kevin-Prince and his brother Jerome who plays for Germany face each other on the opposite sides.