Bennet Wiegert
Master coach open: “Of course I’m afraid of depression”
24.02.2025 – 11:10 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
With SC Magdeburg, Bennet Wiegert won the handball Bundesliga last season. Now he speaks openly about his mental health.
Bennet Wiegert, coach of SC Magdeburg, spoke openly about his fears and dealing with mental health in an interview. In the “Bock on Handball” magazine, the 43-year-old explained: “Whether I am afraid of a burnout? Sure. I have also done tests whether I am at risk. Fortunately, I’m relatively safe because I stop at I am emotional, “he said.
For Wiegert, a burnout is “just a form of depression”, but this could take many different courses. “I’m afraid of depression? Of course I’m afraid of depression. Maybe I have a depression? I don’t know.”
The Magdeburg coach, known for his passionate way on the sidelines, regularly works with psychologists. He is aware that emotions sometimes boil over. “Sometimes my ass is bursting. And sometimes I tell my boys things where I say afterwards: ‘Oh man, all of the coaching have brought relatively little …’ but that is also part of it. It is part of it in the To let the cabin down your pants. “
Despite all the challenges, Wiegert describes his profession as a “dream job”. He “has a great family with two healthy children. Actually, I would have to be the happiest person in the world,” said Wiegert. “I have often tried to make it clear to me again and again. Sometimes this thought just lasts far too short. And then this greediness comes out again: I have to win! What I sometimes go out so selfish is blatant.”
In his nine years as a coach, he said he cried three times in the cabin with players – each because of personal blows of fate. “Only the hard facts count for the public, and that is the performance at the weekend. But that is not life. This is not how life doesn’t work.”