MAGDEBURG (AP) – Bennett Wiggert repeatedly pointed his index finger at his team, while 6,449 fans frantically chanted “Head coach, head coach, hello.”
After that, the Magdeburg handball coach wiped his tears and grabbed the ball firmly in his hand. “If our captain Christian O’Sullivan says, ‘You’ll take him, the coach, I’ll do it for sure. He’ll definitely get a place in our club’s cup treasury,'” Wigbert said after the tough 31:26 win against HBW Balingen-Weilstetten. He did not get tired of emphasizing that the priority is his team, not him.
The title is “The Product of Long Hard Work”
“I preferred the ‘Championship, Team Championship’ because it is a collective success in which I made my small contribution. The 40-year-old coach, who has been putting the team together like a puzzle for seven years, now said the head coach’s feeling is brighter, but it’s not fair.” “This is the product of long hard work. Bennett pushed his playing system, signing players he wanted. Lucas Mertens praised the national player ‘I’m happy to be a part of it.'”
So, 7,683 days after the first all-German victory in the club’s history, SCM once again won the cup, available only on June 12 in their last home game against Rhein-Neckar-Luen. Then there will be a reception at the city hall. 30 Bundesliga victories and just two defeats were enough to keep record champion THW Kiel in trouble. “It is indescribable. We have been struggling our way step by step for ten years,” said Matthias Moshe, who was a baby from Magdeburg who hugged the coach for a long time and warmly. They both used to go through all the SCM teams.
Beer, dance and goosebumps
So did national player Philip Webber, who danced on the floor with a beer bottle and Magnus Saugstrup in his arm before getting a champagne fountain from Dane’s Magnum bottle. “It’s great to be back home in my first year, it’s crazy,” said Webber, who meanwhile played in Leipzig and made it to the national team there. At Getec Square, he was surprised by his mother who was in the hall for the first time. “It’s unbelievable, you’ve never been there before,” Webber said, adding in disbelief: “Even when I say it: German champions – I get goosebumps.”
The 10-time DDR Champion faces even more of a challenge. After winning the title in 2001, this was followed by a Champions League victory in 2002. This challenge will now be the next step for Elbestadt, who won the Club World Championship in the IHF Super Globe against FC Barcelona (33:28) in October. “We can defeat any team in the world. Now we can set new goals, we may have to,” said Dirk Rosandowicz, head of the Syrian Center for Statistics.
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Coach Weigert, who has not been called “Benno” in his club since childhood – had to admit: “As a player, I did not perceive it that way, now I feel more powerful.” The son of Olympic handball champion Ingolf Wiegert was there as a player when today’s national coach Alfred Jeslason led the SCM team to the championship in 2001. “It’s always driven me to think about the championship. It’s what I worked for every day,” Wiegert said.
He does not like comparisons with his father very much. “I will always be under his guidance. I’ve felt like this all my life, and it’s not bad either,” he said in an interview with the daily Die Welt (Friday). This is what drives me incredibly. But at some point I had to admit that I couldn’t do it because his sports activities were too big.