32 BIG NAMES: Vote for WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2017!

The seventh year in a row, Handballl-Planet.com organizes the Contest for the WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2017! The Voting process of the traditional November competition is based on opinion of 30 handball journalists from all over the world. Handball-Planet.com Jury of handball Experts from four continents (27 countries) made the list of 32 players (four per team’s position) who will be in the race for the title of the WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2017, but also “BEST 8” OF WORLD HANDBALL 2017. 

The last member of Jury are Handball-Planet.com visitors, who can support their favorites by joining the Polls until December 7. It is important to be remembered that votes of handball fans across the globe will be added to existing number of points given by the journalist’s jury.

Journalists and fans will together announce the best at the end of the voting process.

Here are the nominations for the HP WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2017 per position (CLICK AND VOTE):

WORLD BEST LEFT WING 2017
WORLD BEST LEFT BACK 2017
WORLD BEST PLAYMAKER 2017
WORLD BEST RIGHT BACK 2017
WORLD BEST RIGHT WING 2017
WORLD BEST LINE-PLAYER 2017
WORLD BEST GOALKEEPER 2017
WORLD BEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER 2017

VOTE UNTIL DECEMBER 7

JURY MEMBERS:

Bjorn Pazen (Handball Woche, Germany)
Rici Gjamovski (g-sport.mk, Macedonia)
Lojze Grčman (SIOL, Slovenia)
Stig Nygard (TV 2, Norway)
Jozsef Simon (Nemzeti Sport, Hungary)
Piotr Karpinski (NC TV, Poland)
Johan Flinck (Aftonbladet, Sweden)
Dražen Pinević (Sportske Novosti, Croatia)
Jasmin Tajić (Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jorge Dargel (MARCA, Spain)
HANDNEWS TEAM (Handnews.fr, France)
Yuki Hattori (Japanese Handball Magazine, Japan)
Sergey Novikov (PRESSBALL, Belarus)
Rui Guimaraes (O Jogo, Portugal)
Konstantinos Chatzidimitriou (e-HANDBALL.gr, Greece)
Igor Grachov (Komanda newspaper, Ukraine)
Tarif Girgin (Hentbolgazete.com, Turkey)
Luca Zadra (Pallamanoitalia.it, Italy)
Sascha Staat (Kreis Ab, Germany)
Sergey Prigolovkin (Rushandball.ru, Russia)
Sreten Raskovic (Arena Sport TV, Balkan)
Hernan De Lorenzi (Handball De Primera Radio, Argentina)
Rasmus Boysen (Hballtransfers, Denmark)
Peter Bruun (EHF, Denmark)
Handbollskanalen TEAM (Sweden)
Johannes Hahn (ORF, Austria)
Nikola Nikolić (VIJESTI, Montenegro)
Dean Shmuel Elmas (Sport 1, Israel)
Života Bogdanović (Balkan-handball.com, Serbia)
Walid Belaid Oui (Tunisia)

JURY MEMBERS FROM EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA

Our goal that handball world gets a public and fair contest for the World best players of the year, since 2010 received a big support from the parts of handball globe. WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2017 Jury is consisted of the people with their names and CV’s with the clear aim to get opinion from different countries, continents, handball schools and traditions. Our Jury members are famous handball specialists in their countries, which coming from the biggest media (Marca, TV 2 NO, Globoesporte, Aftonbladet), but also from specialized websites and newspapers as Handball Woche, Handnews.fr, Balkan-Handball.com, rushandball.ru, Handbollskanalen, Stregspiller…

NAGY, JICHA, DUVNJAK, KARABATIĆ, HANSEN…

Handball-Planet.com looking for the seventh World’s Handball Player in the history of our Contest. Hungarian TOP star Laszlo Nagy won award in 2011 when over 6500 fans voted on our Poll question. WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2012 was Czech star Filip Jicha (over 13.000 voters), while in 2013 the first name in the handball world was Domagoj Duvnjak with unified opinion of Jury members and huge support of the fans (about 146.000 votes for all nominees in total).

The WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2014 was Nikola Karabatić, with the great support of Jury members, but also over 171.000 fans who voted in our Polls. Fantastic French star won also the title in 2015.

The winner of 2016 Contest was his team-mate from PSG Handball, Danish TOP star Mikkel Hansen.

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