Počeo je tradicionalni izbor za najboljeg rukometaša planete po izboru eminentnog portala Handball-planet.com. U žiriju za izbor najboljeg igrača svijeta su 23 novinara iz 23 zemlje svijeta, tri kontinenta, a predstavnik Bosne i Hercegovine je novinar SCsport.ba. Novinarski žiri je nominovao po četiri najbolja igrača na svakoj poziciji , a posljednji član žirija je publika koja ima priliku na portalu Hanball-planet.com glasati do 4. decembra tekuće godine.
Među igračima nema nijednog bh. reprezentativca, a od reprezentativaca iz zemalja bivše Jugoslavije nalazi se šest igrača, i to: Momir Ilić, Domagoj Duvnjak, Renato Vugrinec, Kiril Lazarov, Marko Vujin i Dragan Gajič.
LIJEVO KRILO:
Anders Eggert (SG Flensburg – Denmark)
Gudjon Valur Sigurdsson (FC Barcelona – Iceland)
Uwe Gensheimer (Rhein Neckar Lowen – Germany)
Timur Dibirov (RK Vardar Skopje – Russia)
LIJEVI BEK:
Serhei Rutenka (FC Barcelona – Belarus)
Mikkel Hansen (PSG Handball – Denmark)
Momir Ilić (MKB MVM Veszprem – Serbia)
Filip Jicha (THW Kiel – Czech Republic)
SREDNJI BEK:
Domagoj Duvnjak (THW Kiel – Croatia)
Nikola Karabatić (FC Barcelona – France)
Joan Canellas (THW Kiel – Spain)
Aron Palmarsson (THW Kiel – Iceland)
DESNI BEK:
Laszlo Nagy (MKB MVM Veszprem – Hungary)
Kiril Lazarov (FC Barcelona – Macedonia)
Marko Vujin (THW Kiel – Serbia)
Renato Vugrinec (RK Metalurg – Macedonia)
DESNO KRILO:
Victor Tomas (FC Barcelona – Spain)
Luc Abalo (PSG Handball – France)
Lasse Svan Hansen (SG Flensburg – Denmark)
Hans Lindberg (HSV Handball – Denmark)
PIVOTMEN:
Bjarte Myrhol (Rhein Neckar Lowen – Norway)
Renato Sulić (MKB MVM Veszprem – Hungary)
Julen Aguinagalde (Vive Tauron Kielce – Spain)
Cedric Sorhaindo (FC Barcelona – France)
GOLMAN:
Arpad Šterbik (RK Vardar Skopje – Spain)
Niklas Landin (Rhein Neckar Lowen – Denmark)
Thierry Omeyer (PSG Handball – France)
Mattias Andersson (SG Flensburg – Sweden)
ODBRAMBENI IGRAČ:
Tobbias Karlsson (SG Flensburg – Sweden)
Viran Morros (FC Barcelona – Spain)
Timuszin Schuch (MKB MVM Veszprem – Hungary)
Gedeon Guardiola (Rhein Neckar Lowen – Spain)
U novinarskom žiriju se nalaze:
Bjorn Pazen (Handball Woche, Germany)
Goran Antevski (Sportmedia.mk, Macedonia)
Peter Zalokar (Delo, Slovenia)
Bent Svele (TV 2, Norway)
Jozsef Simon (Nemzeti Sport, Hungary)
Wojciech Osinski (Przegladsportowy.pl, Poland)
Patrick Andersson (Hbold.dk, Denmark)
Dražen Pinević (Sportske Novosti, Croatia)
Jasmin Tajić (Sport Centar, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jorge Dargel (MARCA, Spain)
Tom O Brannagain (EHF TV, Ireland)
Nicholas Chardon (Handnews.fr, France)
Luca Zadra (Pallamano Italia, Italy)
Yuki Hattori (Japanese Handball Magazine, Japan)
Sergey Novikov (Pressball.by, Belarus)
Johan Flinck (Aftonbladet, Sweden)
Hans Hugentobler (Handballworld.ch, Switzerland)
Rui Guimaraes (O Jogo, Portugal)
Hernan De Lorenzi (Handball De Primera, Argentina)
Marian Ursescu (GAZETA SPORTURILOR, Romania)
Blilel Alouini (Al Jazeera, Qatar)
Torsteinn Haukur Hardason (Sport.is, Iceland)
Žika Bogdanović (Balkan-handball.com, Serbia)
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