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

Bundesliga club FSV Mainz 05 will decide on Jan Siewert’s future as coach during the winter break. “He will definitely coach this team until the winter. Then we’ll sit down together. He’s in pole position, he’s doing a good job,” said sporting director Christian Heidel on DAZN on Sunday ahead of the match against SC Freiburg.

Mainz parted ways with coach Bo Svensson at the beginning of November. Since then, 44-year-old Siewert has been in charge of the team. Under his direction, there has been one win and three draws so far. “That was not a planned change of coach. We are now taking the time to think carefully about which coach we will go into the future with. 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 timetable.

The 41-year-old is no stranger to the Ruhr region: In 2015, he took over the coaching role at Rot-Weiss Essen for 34 games before becoming assistant coach under Gertjan Verbeek at VfL Bochum. After a season with the U19s (27 games), Siewert signed on with Borussia Dortmund’s U23s. He then moved to the city on the Rhine in 2020.

First as head coach of the youth team, then as coach of the second team, which is currently in 15th place in the Regionalliga Südwest. Curious: Siewert stepped in as interim coach at the end of 2020. He took over the Mainz professional team for six days. (with dpa)