VELUX EHF Champions League player of the week - Quarter-finals, second leg
In a Facebook poll of 3,153 respondents, 47.1% chose “RB - Renato Vugrinec (Metalurg)”. How we count
RB - Renato Vugrinec (Metalurg)
47.1%1,484
LP - Renato Sulic (Veszprem)
39.4%1,243
RW - Matjaz Brumen (Vardar)
9.8%308
CB - Nikola Karabatic (Barcelona)
1.8%58
GK - Arpad Sterbik (Barcelona)
1%32
LW - Dominik Klein (Kiel)
0.7%23
LB - Sergei Gorbok (Rhein-Neckar Löwen)
0.2%5
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Renato Vugrinec took the top spot on day one and held it for all 45 days without interruption — no lead change, no late surge, just a steady 47.1% to close it out. Renato Sulic trailed the entire way at 39.4%, with everyone else fighting over single-digit scraps: Brumen at 9.8%, and the rest under 2% combined.
The margin was national, not tactical. North Macedonia turned out 753 votes and backed Vugrinec hard, while Hungary's 683 nearly matched it behind Sulic — two fanbases voting almost like block totals. Everywhere else was scattered: the U.S., Russia, Germany barely dented either total.
- Led from day one · Vugrinec topped every single day of the 45-day poll, no exceptions.
- Two-country duel · North Macedonia (753) and Hungary (683) drove the top two spots.
- Long tail collapse · Bottom four options combined for under 4% of all votes.