For the first time in the 2007/2008 season, Leonardo De Deus Santos (´Dede´) won the Player of the Month award. Dede, who has the best one-on-one statistics in the league and also the third-best assists record, dominated the April 2008 votes with a landslide win ahead of Kuba and Marc Kruska. Dede received 72.9 percent of the votes.

This is the best score any player had this season on the BVB homepage. More than 2,000 supporters voted for Dede - one of them was Sabine Kuffel from Dortmund, who won an original autographed BVB jersey.
The BVB supporters can vote for their Player of the Month each month directly on the BVB homepage. So far, the winners this season were: Florian Kringe (August), Mladen Petric (September/October and January/February), Sebastian Kehl (November/December) and Tinga (March). The next and last vote this season, for May 2008 in which Alex Frei found back to form, will be held in early June.

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Putting an exclamation mark behind his name: Dede!