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Almost ten months after the end of his Augsburg engagement, Martin Schmidt returns to the Bundesliga, according to a media report. But not as a coach.
Veteran coach Christian Heidel returns to relegation candidate FSV Mainz 05 after a “photo report”. As a future board member, the 57-year-old should bring an old friend to the Bruchweg: according to the newspaper, Martin Schmidt should be Tables-17’s sporting director. of the Bundesliga. From the club itself there was initially no confirmation or information about what is happening now with coach Jan-Moritz Lichte. According to the information in the “image”, the coach must be released during the course of Monday.
Schmidt came to Mainz in 2010, he was only responsible for the second and from 2015 to 2017 of the first team of the self-proclaimed carnival club. The 53-year-old Swiss was also head coach of FC Augsburg and VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga. Most recently, Schmidt worked as a television expert and had indicated that he no longer wanted a job in the dugout.
Heidel discovered Klopp and Tuchel, and also Schmidt
According to information from the newspaper, Christian Heidel has agreed a contract with the chairman of the supervisory board, Detlev Höhne, and the board members Stefan Hofmann and Jan Lehmann. He would succeed sporting director Rouven Schröder, who announced his departure from Rheinhessen last week. Until four years ago, Heidel worked for the Mainz team for almost a quarter of a century, took it to the Bundesliga and is considered the discoverer of today’s coaches, Jürgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel. And Martin Schmidt also celebrated his professional coaching debut with Heidel.
The former managing director of a car dealership who has a residence with his family in Mallorca moved to FC Schalke 04 as sports director in 2016 and was replaced there by Jochen Schneider in 2019. The Mainz club management had high hopes for him. Heidel returned, who was the last out of office. However, it was originally planned for Heidel to join the board and do the work together with Schröder.
Meanwhile, Jan-Moritz Lichte is still considered the head coach on duty. The 40-year-old had only replaced the murdered Achim Beierlorzer at the end of September, but was able to muster few arguments to continue the job. More recently there was a bitter defeat in the DFB Cup against second division VfL Bochum. In the league, the club is 17th with just six points after 13 games. The latest results against Bremen (0: 1), Hertha (0: 0), Cologne (0: 1) and Bielefeld (1: 2) were for Mainz so instructive that Schröder cleared the way and the sports direction is now repositioning itself.
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