Opening day in Mainz

In Germany, the Allgemeine Zeitung mentions the rapidly-approaching opening day of its local Budesliga club, the Mainz Athletics. The A's have a new manager, American Greg Frady. Frady, the 41-year-old former assistant coach at the University of Central Florida, will also be the coach of the German national team, which was relegated from the A-pool last summer and is hoping to bounce back to the top European competition this summer by winning the B-pool, which it will be hosting this summer.