The Best: Preliminary Round

19 Jan. 2019

The Best: Preliminary Round

After entering as a main sponsor of the International Handball Federation – and the World Championships – Danish sports brand hummel reimagined the traditional player of the match award with the one player from each game during the whole tournament receiving the privilege of passing the sport of handball on to less fortunate children. 

We take a look at the 60 players who have received the award so far at Germany/Denmark 2019.

hummel Best Players of the Match

By team:

One each: Angola (ANG), Austria (AUT)

Two each: Argentina (ARG), Chile (CHI), Unified Korea (COR), France (FRA), Hungary (HUN), Japan (JPN), FYR Macedonia (MKD), Qatar (QAT)

Three: Egypt (EGY), Spain (ESP), Iceland (ISL), Russia (RUS), Tunisia (TUN)

Four: Brazil (BRA), Germany (GER), Norway (NOR)

Five: Croatia (CRO), Denmark (DEN), Sweden (SWE)

By players:

Two: Ali Zeinelabedin (EGY), Arnor Thor Gunnarsson (ISL), Lukas Nilsson (SWE), Mohamed Soussi (TUN), Timur Dibirov (RUS)

By position:

Centre Back (CB): 8
Centre Back/Left Back (CB/LB): 2
Goalkeeper (GK): 10
Left Back (LB): 13
Line Player (LP): 6
Left Wing (LW): 8
Left Wing/Centre Back (LW/CB): 1
Right Back (RB): 5
Right Wing (RW): 7

By match:

Date Match Player Country Pos No.
10/01/2019 COR-GER Andreas Wolff GER GK 33
10/01/2019 CHI-DEN Casper Mortensen DEN LW 6
11/01/2019 SRB-RUS Timur Dibirov RUS LW 31
11/01/2019 BRA-FRA Jose Toledo BRA RB 10
11/01/2019 JPN-MKD Stojanche Stoilov MKD LP 5
11/01/2019 ISL-CRO Luka Stepancic CRO RB 7
11/01/2019 BRN-ESP Ferran Sole Sala ESP RW 49
11/01/2019 KSA-AUT Nikola Bilyk AUT CB 53
11/01/2019 TUN-NOR Magnus Jondal NOR LW 17
11/01/2019 ANG-QAT Rome Hebo ANG CB 5
11/01/2019 ARG-HUN Pablo Simonet ARG CB 8
11/01/2019 EGY-SWE Lukas Nilsson SWE LB 65
12/01/2019 RUS-COR Dongmyung Kim COR LP 15
12/01/2019 GER-BRA Uwe Gensheimer GER LW 3
12/01/2019 FRA-SRB Vincent Gerard FRA GK 12
12/01/2019 AUT-CHI Erwin Feuchtmann CHI LB 4
12/01/2019 NOR-KSA Magnus Rod NOR RB 77
12/01/2019 DEN-TUN Niklas Landin DEN GK 1
13/01/2019 MKD-BRN Kiril Lazarov MKD RB 7
13/01/2019 CRO-JPN Zlatko Horvat CRO RW 13
13/01/2019 ESP-ISL Joan Canellas ESP LB 21
13/01/2019 QAT-EGY Youssef Ali QAT LP 41
13/01/2019 HUN-ANG Roland Mikler HUN GK 16
13/01/2019 SWE-ARG Andreas Palicka SWE GK 12
14/01/2019 SRB-BRA Thiagus Petrus Santos BRA LB 14
14/01/2019 RUS-GER Timur Dibirov RUS LW 31
14/01/2019 FRA-COR Kentin Mahe FRA LW/CB 14
14/01/2019 ISL-BRN Bjorgvin Pall Gustavsson ISL GK 1
14/01/2019 CRO-MKD Domagoj Duvnjak CRO CB 5
14/01/2019 ESP-JPN Akihito Kai JPN GK 16
14/01/2019 TUN-CHI Mohamed Soussi TUN CB/LB 39
14/01/2019 NOR-AUT Goran Johannessen NOR LB 23
14/01/2019 DEN-KSA Magnus Landin DEN LW 4
14/01/2019 HUN-QAT Mate Lekai HUN CB 66
14/01/2019 ARG-EGY Ali Zeinelabedin EGY LB 90
14/01/2019 SWE-ANG Andreas Nilsson SWE LP 35
15/01/2019 RUS-BRA Felipe Borges BRA LW 18
15/01/2019 COR-SRB Jeongu Kang COR CB 34
15/01/2019 GER-FRA Fabian Wiede GER RB 10
15/01/2019 KSA-TUN Makrem Missaoui TUN GK 1
15/01/2019 NOR-CHI Alexander Blonz NOR RW 71
15/01/2019 AUT-DEN Rasmus Lauge DEN CB 11
16/01/2019 JPN-ISL Arnor Thor Gunnarsson ISL RW 17
16/01/2019 CRO-BRN Manuel Strlek CRO LW 26
16/01/2019 MKD-ESP Gonzalo Perez de Vargas ESP GK 33
16/01/2019 ANG-ARG Nicolas Bonanno ARG LB 77
16/01/2019 HUN-EGY Ali Zeinelabedin EGY LB 90
16/01/2019 QAT-SWE Mattias Zachrisson SWE RW 32
17/01/2019 BRA-COR Guilherme Valadao BRA LB 7
17/01/2019 GER-SRB Jannik Kohlbacher GER LP 48
17/01/2019 FRA-RUS Victor Kireev RUS GK 87
17/01/2019 BRN-JPN Hiroki Motoki JPN RW 25
17/01/2019 MKD-ISL Arnor Thor Gunnarsson ISL RW 17
17/01/2019 ESP-CRO Zeljko Musa CRO LP 28
17/01/2019 CHI-KSA Emil Feuchtmann CHI CB 10
17/01/2019 AUT-TUN Mohamed Soussi TUN CB/LB 39
17/01/2019 DEN-NOR Mikkel Hansen DEN LB 24
17/01/2019 EGY-ANG Yehia Elderaa EGY LB 39
17/01/2019 QAT-ARG Frankies Marzo QAT LB 10
17/01/2019 SWE-HUN Lukas Nilsson SWE LB 65