Looking back: The best players from North Macedonia 2019
24 Sep. 2019
This September IHF.info looks back at a busy past few months of younger age world championships with both the 2019 IHF Men’s Junior and Youth World Championships played in Spain and North Macedonia respectively.
Today we look at the ‘Best Player of the Match’ award-winners from the 2019 IHF Men’s Youth World Championship, held in North Macedonia. The award is given to one player in each match, decided by the IHF Analysts and IHF Officials on site in the arena.
To look at all the statistics from North Macedonia 2019, provided by toma-soft, click here.
In Skopje, 92 games were played. The final does not feature the award, so 91 awards in total were given.
Centre back was the clear winner out of all the positions given by the federations in their official squad lists. Twenty-six of the 91 awards were given to this position, with left back (15) and goalkeeper (14) just behind.
The final four teams in the competition – Denmark, Egypt, Germany and Portugal – both won seven awards in their nine games with Canada the only side out of the 24 teams failing to win one.
Finally, we look at the players and three players won the award three times with Mads Hoxer Hangaard (Denmark), Ahmed Hesham Elsayed (Egypt) and Kosuke Yasuhira (Japan, pictured) proving to be the most influential players for their teams in just under half of their games played in the competition. Fifteen players won the award twice for their country.
2019 IHF Men’s Youth World Championship – Best Player of the Match Awarding
Position
Back – 1
Centre Back – 26
Goalkeeper – 14
Left Back – 15
Left Wing – 13
Line Player – 3
Right Back – 10
Right Wing – 9
Team
7 – Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Portugal
6 – Spain, Hungary
5 – Croatia, France, Japan, Sweden
4 – Iceland
3 – Argentina, Bahrain, North Macedonia, Norway, Slovenia
2 – Brazil, Nigeria, Serbia, Chinese Taipei, Tunisia
1 – Chile, Saudi Arabia
0 – Canada
Player
3 – Mads Hoxer Hangaard (Denmark), Ahmed Hesham Elsayed (Egypt), Kosuke Yasuhira (Japan)
2 – Jose Luciano Costa da Silva (Brazil), Mohamed Mohamed (Bahrain), Svend Bro Rughave (Denmark), Roberto Rodriguez Lario (Spain), Alex Pascual Garcia (Spain), Sadou Ntanzi (France), Drevy Paschal (France), Julian Koster (Germany), Benedek Nagy (Hungary), Bence Hornyak (Hungary), Mads Falck Rekstad (Norway), Joel Ribeiro (Portugal), William Andersson Moberg (Sweden), Tsai Chih Chang (Chinese Taipei), Khaled Saidi (Tunisia)
Match
Match # Teams Player Country Position
1 CRO-NOR Stipe Puric CRO Goalkeeper
2 ESP-KSA Alex Pascual Garcia ESP Left Wing
3 SLO-CHI Tadej Kljun SLO Right Back
4 SWE-EGY Ahmed Hesham Elsayed EGY Centre Back
5 FRA-CAN Drevy Paschal FRA Left Wing
6 HUN-TPE Kristof Gyori HUN Goalkeeper
7 DEN-JPN Svend Bro Rughave DEN Goalkeeper
8 BRN-NGR Mohamed Mohamed BRN Centre Back
9 MKD-ARG Juan Ignacio Villarreal ARG Goalkeeper
10 ISL-TUN Dagur Gautason ISL Left Wing
11 GER-POR Salvador Salvador POR Left Back
12 SRB-BRA Jovica Nikolic SRB Right Back
13 EGY-FRA Drevy Paschal FRA Left Wing
14 TPE-SWE Marcus Norrbrink SWE Left Back
15 CAN-HUN Bence Hornyak HUN Right Wing
16 TUN-GER Nils Lichtlein GER Right Back
17 BRA-ISL Haukur Thrastarson ISL Left Back
18 POR-SRB Martim Costa POR Left Back
19 NOR-ESP Alex Pascual Garcia ESP Left Wing
20 CHI-CRO Marin Sincic CRO Right Wing
21 KSA-SLO Enej Jovicic Slatinek SLO Centre Back
22 JPN-BRN Taiga Tsutaya JPN Right Back
23 ARG-DEN Emil Jessen DEN Left Back
24 NGR-MKD Nenad Kosteski MKD Right Wing
25 CRO-KSA Fran Mileta CRO Right Wing
26 ESP-SLO Roberto Rodriguez Lario ESP Goalkeeper
27 NOR-CHI Mads Falck Rekstad NOR Left Wing
28 SWE-CAN Isak Persson SWE Right Wing
29 FRA-HUN Akos Kohegyi HUN Centre Back
30 EGY-TPE Mohab Mohamed Abdelhak EGY Right Back
31 DEN-NGR Faruk Yusuf NGR Right Back
32 JPN-ARG Kosuke Yasuhira JPN Centre Back
33 BRN-MKD Martin Serafimov MKD Right Back
34 ISL-POR Daniel Neves POR Left Back
35 GER-SRB Lukas Diedrich GER Goalkeeper
36 TUN-BRA Khaled Saidi TUN Centre Back
37 FRA-TPE Sadou Ntanzi FRA Centre Back
38 HUN-SWE William Andersson Moberg SWE Left Back
39 CAN-EGY Omar Ahmed Hamdy Lotfy EGY Left Wing
40 GER-BRA Julius Meyer-Siebert GER Left Back
41 SRB-ISL Stiven Tobar Valencia ISL Left Wing
42 POR-TUN Andre Sousa POR Centre Back
43 ESP-CHI Ander Izquierdo Labayen ESP Centre Back
44 SLO-CRO Karpo Sirotić CRO Centre Back
45 KSA-NOR Mads Falck Rekstad NOR Left Wing
46 BRN-ARG Joaquin Barcelo Garcia ARG Left Wing
47 NGR-JPN Daiki Kani JPN Left Wing
48 MKD-DEN Mads Hoxer Hangaard DEN Right Back
49 CHI-KSA Hamdi Mohammed Aboobaid KSA Back
50 SLO-NOR Ola Hoftun Lillelien NOR Right Wing
51 CRO-ESP Veron Nacinovic CRO Line Player
52 TPE-CAN Tsai Chih Chang TPE Goalkeeper
53 HUN-EGY Ahmed Hesham Elsayed EGY Centre Back
54 SWE-FRA Alexander Regen SWE Line Player
55 ARG-NGR Martin Nicolas Jung ARG Centre Back
56 DEN-BRN Oliver Wosniak DEN Left Back
57 JPN-MKD Kosuke Yasuhira JPN Centre Back
58 BRA-POR Joel Ribeiro POR Centre Back
59 SRB-TUN Khaled Saidi TUN Centre Back
60 ISL-GER Veit Mavers GER Centre Back
61 CHI-CAN Rodrigo Aedo CHI Left Wing
62 KSA-TPE Tsai Chih Chang TPE Goalkeeper
63 EGY-SLO Abdelrahman Mohamed Homayed EGY Goalkeeper
64 CRO-HUN Benedek Nagy HUN Goalkeeper
65 FRA-NOR Sadou Ntanzi FRA Centre Back
66 ESP-SWE Oscar Garcia Sanchez ESP Left Wing
67 NGR-BRA Jose Luciano Costa da Silva BRA Left Back
68 BRN-SRB Mujtaba Alzaimoor BRN Left Back
69 ARG-GER Merlin Fuss GER Right Wing
70 ISL-JPN Tumi Steinn Runarsson ISL Centre Back
71 POR-MKD Joel Ribeiro POR Centre Back
72 DEN-TUN Mads Hoxer Hangaard DEN Right Back
73 KSA-SRB Uroš Kojadinovic SRB Right Wing
74 TPE-BRN Mohamed Mohamed BRN Centre Back
75 CAN-NGR Ibrahim Dikko NGR Centre Back
76 CHI-BRA Jose Luciano Costa da Silva BRA Left Back
77 NOR-SWE William Andersson Moberg SWE Left Back
78 CRO-JPN Kosuke Yasuhira JPN Centre Back
79 SLO-TUN Domen Tajnik SLO Centre Back
80 ARG-MKD Kristijan Simonoski MKD Line Player
81 EGY-ISL Hassan Walid Ahmed Kaddah EGY Left Back
82 FRA-POR Martim Costa POR Left Back
83 GER-HUN Julian Koster GER Centre Back
84 ESP-DEN Svend Bro Rughave DEN Goalkeeper
85 ISL-FRA Valentin Gouy FRA Goalkeeper
86 HUN-ESP Bence Hornyak HUN Right Wing
87 EGY-POR Ahmed Hesham Elsayed EGY Centre Back
88 GER-DEN Julian Koster GER Centre Back
89 ISL-ESP Roberto Rodriguez Lario ESP Goalkeeper
90 FRA-HUN Benedek Nagy HUN Goalkeeper
91 POR-DEN Mads Hoxer Hangaard DEN Right Back
92 EGY-DEN No best player awarded