体坛英语新闻：Franck Ribery lifts Player of the Year award

BERLIN, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Bayerns midfielder Franck Ribery has been voted the Player of the Year by his Bundesliga colleagues, a poll by the German sports magazine Kicker showed on Monday.

29% of the 228 Bundesliga players voted in favor of the Frenchmen, who snatched the award ahead of Dortmunds striker Robert Lewandowski with 17.3%. German international Bastian Schweinsteiger finished third with 12.4% of the votes.

Bayern keeper and German international Manuel Neuer secured 23.2% of the votes to claim the title as the Goalkeeper of the Year, followed by Dortmund goalie Roman Weidenfeller with 20.6% and Hamburgs keeper Rene Adler with 19.7%.

The Bundesliga professionals elected Freiburgs head coach Christian Streich with 48.7% as the Coach of the Year. Bayerns outgoing coach Jupp Heynckes followed Streich with 23.7% while Frankfurts coach Armin Veh finished third with 16.1%

After the historic and record breaking season by the treble winner Bayern Munich 80.9% of the professionals view the German Bundesliga as the greatest league in Europe followed by the Premier League with 14.3% and the Primera Division with 4.8%.