Since last Sunday at the latest, Bennet Wiegert has risen to become the absolute club icon of SC Magdeburg. The 41-year-old set a new German handball record and was the first German to win the Champions League both as a player and as a coach. Less than two days after this historic triumph, the successful coach has already set his sights on the next goals.
Bennet Wiegert has become the most successful handball player in the history of SC Magdeburg. After the German championship and the Champions League title as a player (2001 and 2002), his club CV with the SCM now includes the same titles, which are considered to be the most demanding in global club handball, also in his coaching career (2022 and 2023).
There are also triumphs in the DHB Cup (2016), the European League (2021) and the IHF Super Globe (2021).
An incredible success story, which national coach Alfred Gislason has already honored with a huge compliment: “He has developed into a world-class coach,” said the Icelander about the Magdeburg veteran, who once worked with handball legend Stefan Kretzschmar on the left flank of the SCM.
Wiegert himself had his sights set on the next goals at the moment of the greatest success of his coaching career so far: “There are so many possibilities. Maybe winning the double, maybe winning two titles in one season. So I won’t do that tired of looking for challenges myself,” said the handball teacher, who has been the head coach in the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt since 2015, to the “image”.
Before that, he had played for SC Magdeburg himself for a total of twelve years (1998 to 2004 and 2007 to 2013), and was already considered a real club rock back then.
Successful handball coach Wiegert doesn’t think about quitting
Wiegert assured the newspaper that he was far from feeling tired as the head coach of SC Magdeburg, who finished second behind THW Kiel in the Bundesliga this season.
“I can still develop and improve in so many things. There is no reason for us to stop in any way or to be satisfied,” the Champions League winner thinks again of the tasks ahead.
At first he promised himself and his wife something completely different for the few weeks of handball-free time: “I’ll try to fly on vacation, really put my cell phone aside there. I’ve often promised that. That’s for me Partly successful, partly not.”