Maniz take on additional trainer for interim coaching regime
FSV Mainz 05 announced on Wednesday that interim head-coach Jan Siewert would receive additional help in the dugout.
The interim head-coaching regime of Jan Siewert at FSV Mainz 05 will receive some additional assistance in the form of 39-year-old assistant Dennis Lamby. In a move that is not unprecedented in German football, yet still not exactly common, the Rheinhessen will take Lamby on loan from the Rhineland Football Association and German FA.
The last top-flight Bundesliga club to come to such an arrangement was Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2021. Germany's red company team secured the services of DFB trainer Hannes Wolf for the duration of the 2020/21 campaign after Peter Bosz was sacked in March. Lamby has experience coaching the German U-15, U-16, and U-17 national teams.
"We would like to thank the Rhineland Football Association," FSV top sporting executive Christian Heidel noted in a club statement, with whom we have been closely associated for many years, for accommodating us so un-bureaucratically in this personnel matter."
Mainz were able to win their first league fixture of the current campaign under Siewert's tutelage this past Saturday. Heidel - as a guest on Germany's famed television footballing roundtable "Doppelpass" on Sunday - noted that he and his administrative team had not yet begun to contemplate whether Siewert might remain in charge.
"No word [on that topic] has been spoken," Heidel said on Sunday, "Jan [Siewert] is certainly someone who will appear in the Bundesliga sooner or later, perhaps with us."