BERLIN, Jan 2 - Brazilian playmaker Diego was
voted the best player during the first half of the Bundesliga
season in a Kicker magazine poll of 270 team mates and league
rivals.
Kicker said on Tuesday 49.6 percent had voted Werder
Bremen's Diego, 21, as the best performer of the first half,
well ahead of his team mates Miroslav Klose in second (32.7
percent) and Torsten Frings (4.1 percent) who was third.
Klose, a striker, and Hertha Berlin's Marko Pantelic are the
league's top scorers with 10 goals each. Diego, an attacking
midfielder, is fourth with eight.
Bremen, who have benefited greatly from Diego's move to
Germany this season from Porto, lead the Bundesliga with 47
goals in 17 matches.
Robert Enke of Hanover 96 was voted best goalkeeper in the
first half with 37.1 percent ahead of Bremen's Tim Wiese (24.9
percent) and Borussia Dortmund's Roman Weidenfeller (12.2).