As a young guy Bennet Wiegert has hated away trips. If he was a tennis professional and his team, SC Magdeburg, on the road, he had to listen to, especially in the halls of the new Federal States a lot, and sometimes bile, contrary to beat him. Let it remain! You’ll never be as good as your old man! “I don’t know how many times I’ve heard sayings,” says Wiegert, “the took me at the time, pretty much.” The story of the Last of the great Name – one she knows of the many children of athletes from all sports.
Wiegert – the last name you have brought in Magdeburg and, in addition, especially with father Ingolf, in combination, a circular runner of world-class, a living legend in the club. That Bennet Wiegert of that outstanding SCM Team, won the Millennium, the German championship, and a year – end first, later became the first Bundesliga side to the Champions League for many a gift.
Meanwhile, has emancipated the son of man. As previously, the last member of Bennet Wiegert in the “Hall of Fame” of the traditional clubs from Sachsen-Anhalt has been taken, his Jersey hangs today in the same way under the hall roof as his father’s – and this is mainly due to his merits as a coach. After years of consolidation, and the late consequences of a just averted bankruptcy Wiegert has established the SCM again in the national forefront: The DHB-Cup-victory in 2016, was the first national title since the championship in 2001, Wiegert as the Active part.
Wiegert relies on small, tricky and quick players
this Sunday (13.30 PM), Magdeburg is now the host for the top of the 18. Bundesliga-match day: Then the old favorite enemy is watching, then the Füchse Berlin look to the annual meeting. A few weeks ago, it would have been even a Slight, a prediction for the game, which can be based on the duels of the past few years never actually predict. To stormed the start of the season, the Magdeburg is the only way through the League and surprising the competition could be with your aggressive, the tempo of the game-oriented style: 14:0 points meant a new start record. In the case of foxes, by contrast, is well known, were missing up to ten injured players, of which at least half of them has reported back. With an away victory in Berlin could reduce the residue on the SCM now, even on a paltry two points. Suddenly, a table with four would be even in sight.
SCM against Füchse Berlin – it is in the Christmas period to 2018, especially the duel between two trainers who will deliver a pretty chess guaranteed game: on the one hand, of Berlin, Velimir Petkovic, and on the other side, the youngest Bundesliga Wiegert, at the age of 36-Trainer, and on top of that, one of the most innovative and most unconventional. He relies on a comparatively small, but the more cunning and faster players. “We want to go on to two battles and always to move up a gear”, says Wiegert, “this is not a common approach – and maybe I’ll be there in five years, to the realization that this was bullshit.” So far, the Magdeburg are dangers with this tactic but a good one. In the EHF Cup they failed recently as the only German team in the qualification phase, also in the Bundesliga the team-staffing a couple of surprising points made.
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the participation in the final tournament of the DHB Cup in April for sure; in Hamburg it might lead to another duel with the foxes, who qualified during the week with an exhilarating victory over the defending champion Rhein-Neckar Löwen. Velimir Petkovic, the coach of Füchse Berlin and at the age of 62 also Wiegerts counterpart, so the oldest reigning League Coach, would certainly have no objection.
