Ismaning, July 12: Midfielder Michael Ballack has been voted the sexiest player in the German national team in a survey released on Thursday. The 25-year-old dark-haired former Bayern Leverkusen playmaker, who will line up for Bayern Munich next season, received 40 percent of the votes in the survey by television channel DSF and Internet portal Sport1.

Defender Christoph Metzelder had 32.7 percent, while towering shaven-headed striker Carsten Jancker scored 11.4 percent and goalkeeper Oliver Kahn got 10.9 percent.

Ballack's goal against South Korea sent Germany into last month's World Cup final but the yellow card he picked up for a foul on Lee Chun-Soo ruled him out of the most important match of his career.
Without him, Brazil won 2-0. Bureau Report