+++ Player of the season: Fully deserved: Werder fans have voted Claudio
Pizarro as their Player of the Season. After netting two goals in the first
half of the campaign, Pizarro found his groove in the second half of the season
and delivered one goal after the other. In Leverkusen he became the oldest player
ever to score a hat-trick and against Mainz Pizarro matched the all-time
scoring record at Werder of Marco Bode, before claiming the top spot for
himself with his strike against Hannover. Chairman Bode is delighted with this,
but joked that "I was actually against having him return to Werder because
I fully expected this. Jokes aside, his goals were extremely important for us
and it's just great to have him in our team."