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In a Facebook poll of 3,063 respondents, 61.8% chose “B - Sajad Esteki (Dinamo Bucuresti)”. How we count
B - Sajad Esteki (Dinamo Bucuresti)
61.8%1,893
F - Nebojsa Simic (IFK Kristianstad)
15.1%464
C - Magnus Bramming (TTH Holstebro)
9.4%289
A - Nedim Remili (PSG)
6.4%197
D - Andreas Wolff (THW Kiel)
5.6%171
E - Dika Mem (Barcelona)
1.6%49
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Sajad Esteki won this poll fast — 71% of day two, settled by day three — but the crowd behind him barely resembles the runner-up's. Esteki drew 1,732 men to just 141 women, a 92% male sheet stacked with Romania (743 votes) and reinforced by the US, UK and Russia.
Nebojsa Simic never got closer than second, finishing at 15.1%, but his support looked completely different: 57% male, nearly even by gender, and powered almost entirely by Sweden (356 votes). Same poll, same six names, two audiences that barely overlap.
- Gender gap · Esteki's crowd ran 92% male; Simic's was a near-even 57%.
- Country signature · Romania backed Esteki 743-strong; Sweden backed Simic 356-strong.
- Settled early · Esteki hit a 71% lead by day two and was never seriously challenged again.