Handball Lukas Binder
“I was able to pull myself up through sport”
Status: 09.07.2023 | Reading time: 3 minutes
In his youth, Lukas Binder threatened to go down the wrong path
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Lukas Binder, the captain of the SC DHfK Leipzig, tells his moving story. From former friends who are now immersed in the drug milieu. And his mother, who was considering reporting her son.
As captain of the handball Bundesliga club SC DHfK Leipzig, he is a role model and a driving force. Lukas Binder, 31, was once a very bad finger. “As a boy – I was just twelve or 13 – I tested boundaries, had false and older friends,” he recalls. “You always wanted to be cool with them. Alcohol came quickly, smoking quickly, fights, graffiti—everything you could take with you.” He was on his way to becoming a criminal.
And that, too, is incomprehensible to him today: he was regularly beaten up by his own buddies. Binder: “You thought it was funny. And I accepted it with a laugh to keep my cool and stay with the group. That was a blatant time.” So bad that his single mother even wanted to report him so that he wouldn’t completely ruin his life. It didn’t come to that. There was no ad. But in Binder’s head, his mother’s words had “clicked”.
Binder removed himself from these circles. And sport helped him with that. Left winger Binder knows: “Some of the people are hanging around at the train station today with crystal meth.” On the other hand, he plays in the Bundesliga. “I was able to pull myself up through sport. It wasn’t school, I had absolutely no interest in it. And in the end, neither were the friends.”
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At 17 he made the leap into the men’s team at SC DHfK and also trained as an office clerk. At that time the club was still playing in the fourth division. Six years later, he led Leipzig into the Bundesliga as captain. But he later lost this post. Binder describes the reasons today as follows: “Out every weekend and with growing awareness. You often got feedback from the female guests. That was something pleasant. But not at all suitable for a professional athlete.”
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There was even a temporary suspension – just before a game at THW Kiel. And together with Franz Semper (later Flensburg, now Leipzig again), who was also not a child of sadness at the time. Binder admits: “I only really grew up through my current wife, Tanja, who saw more in me than just the party monster.”
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Binder has been married to the actress and influencer for a year. At the beginning of the season he regained the captaincy. He still has a contract until 2025. He would like to add a few more years. Binder: “Leading the boys on the plate as captain in the Champions League, that would be one of my dreams.” Which seemed unimaginable in his teenage years.
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The item was written for the sports competence center (WELT, SPORT BILD, BILD) and first published in BILD AM SONNTAG.
