The 41-year-old previously coached Borussia Dortmund, Rot-Weiss Essen and VfL Bochum.

Bundesliga club FSV Mainz 05 wants to decide on the future of Jan Siewert as coach during the winter break. “He will definitely continue to coach this team until winter. Then we will sit down together. He is in pole position, he is doing a good job,” said sports director Christian Heidel on Sunday at DAZN before the game against SC Freiburg.

Mainz parted ways with coach Bo Svensson at the beginning of November. Since then, the 44-year-old Siewert has been in charge of the team. Under his direction, there has been one win and three draws so far. “This was not a planned change of coach. Now we are taking the time to consider carefully which coach we will take into the future. We want to get a picture and then decide after a certain number of games what is the best solution for Mainz 05,” Heidel explained the schedule.

The 41-year-old is no stranger to the Ruhr area: in 2015, he took over the coaching role at Rot-Weiss Essen for 34 games before becoming Gertjan Verbeek’s assistant coach at VfL Bochum. After one season with the U19 (27 games), Siewert signed on with Borussia Dortmund’s U23.

First as head coach of the junior team, then as coach of the second team, which is currently in 15th place in the Regionalliga Südwest. Curiously, Siewert had already stepped in as interim coach at the end of 2020, taking over the Mainz professional team for six days. (with dpa)