Joseph Laumann (born 31 August 1983) is a Moroccan-German

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coach and former player. He was most recently caretaker manager of

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. He remains at the club as a coach.

Playing career

Laumann was born in

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, Morocco. He started his career at Oestrich-Iserlohn before moving to

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in 2004. He was then snapped up by

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club

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in 2005, where he also played in the reserve. In 2006, Laumann moved to

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side

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where he played 30 games, scoring 11 goals. He then moved on to

VfB Lübeck VfB Lübeck is a German association football club playing in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein in the country's north. In addition to its football side the 1,000 member sports club also has departments for badminton, women's gymnastics, handball, and ...

before playing in the

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for the first half of 2008. In January 2008 he moved to Rot-Weiß Erfurt, where he was fired in May 2008 after a hidden trial with Vitesse under the pseudonym "Joseph Ratzinger". In July 2008, Laumann went on trial with

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side

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while the Scottish side were on their summer tour of Austria. After playing one match for the Pars against

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n side Timişoara, manager Jim McIntyre said that they did not come together with the German striker. On 16 October 2008, after five months without a club Lauman signed a contract with

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Coaching career

Sportfreunde Lotte

Together with his coach from SC Roland Beckum,

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, Laumann joined

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team

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at the beginning of 2015 in order to work there under Atalan as his assistant coach. Atalan and Laumann achieved promotion to the

in 2016, as well as relegation there in the following season; The team also reached the quarter-finals in the 2016/17

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VfL Bochum

In mid-July 2017, Laumann followed Atalan to the

club

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, where he also took on the role of assistant coach. After Atalan was released three months later after only 10 games, Laumann's contract with VfL was terminated in October 2017 by mutual agreement.

Return to Sportfreunde Lotte

In November 2017, Laumann returned to

, again as an assistant coach, however, this time under head coach Andreas Golombek. He left the club again at the end of the season, when head coach Golombek was replaced by

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. On 9 April 2018, Laumann returned to the club for the third time, once again under

, who had been re-appointed as the head coach of Sportfreunde Lotte.

Hallescher FC

On 25 February 2020, Laumann and Atalan left

to join

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Barnsley

On 30 October 2020, it was confirmed by English

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club

, that Laumann had been hired as the assistant coach of French head coach

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. In an interview in November 2020, Laumann revealed, that him and Ismaël had been friends for several years but never worked together until now. On 1 November 2021, it was announced that Laumann would take the position of caretaker manager following the sacking of

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. He subsequently led Barnsley to their first victory in 14 games with a 2–1 win over

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. Laumann lost his second game as caretaker to

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in a 2–0 defeat. Laumann was replaced by

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on 21 November 2021, returning to a post as coach.

Personal life

Laumann is of German and Moroccan descent, his father is German, his mother is Moroccan. He moved from Morocco to

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, Germany at the age of 10.

Managerial statistics

References

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