In December 2020, Weghorst shared a post about the corona pandemic on Instagram, which read: “Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be forced to take it; for a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it.” Weghorst provided the contribution with the request “to think for yourself”.
Weghorst deleted the post, but the Internet does not forget. Weghorst apologized in a statement distributed by VfL Wolfsburg. A few months later he was a guest at the NDR sports club and said: “I want to say very clearly: I’m not a corona denier. People died from it all over the world, which is shocking.”
In October 2021, VfL Wolfsburg sent another message about Weghorst. The Dutchman had been infected with Corona. “Everything happens for a reason”Weghorst wrote on Instagram. “Life is like riding a bike, to keep your balance you have to move.”
Tears, training, goals
Weghorst was always on the move in his career, there was never a standstill. In the past, Weghorst once told the magazine “11Freunde”, the other children from his club would often forget defeats quite quickly. Just like children do. “I, on the other hand, cried bitterly. Or even got really angry at times.”
In general, the ambition is important in order to understand the Weghorst footballer. As a youth he was a good player, but not outstanding, later he played in the tenth division. Weghorst still avoided parties and preferred to train – it paid off.
Weghorst is known today as a striker who can rely on his instincts, at least on the pitch. You could see that often in Wolfsburg: How Weghorst, almost two meters tall and nobody whose dribbles and tricks one will ever talk about, often stood where the ball was a split second later. How he fought and headed and scored.
“I want to achieve the highest that is possible for me.”
A year ago, when people’s image of Wout Weghorst had already changed, when there was no longer just admiration but also incomprehension, he gave the “kicker” a longer interview. Weghorst said: “I want to achieve the highest that is possible for me.”
The highest, that’s not Manchester or London, it’s Burnley.