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Jay Ainslie made the United States Junior National Team,
he found that international soccer is as much war as it is
sport.
"It was a real battle," Ainslie said. "It was a matter of
national pride for some teams. One of our players had
teeth knocked out. I had cleat marks up my back. I didn't
need that."
Despite the physical intimidation, Ainslie and the
national team advanced to the regional finals and in
doing so became the first American team ever to qualify
for the Junior World Cup, which will be held in Austria in
Oct. 1981.
Ainslie' s efforts with the national team started with
tryouts in his home town, Miami. From there he advanced
to the state tryouts, then the regionals held in Chapel Hill
and finally the nationals in Colorado. The 20 selectees
travelled to Hamburg, W. Germany, for three weeks of
training before returning to the states for qualifying
games.
During this process, Ainslie decided to come to UNC.
Last year, as a freshman, he started 14 games. This year
Ainslie has solidified his status as a starting defender.
There, he is in the shadows of All-ACC goalie Kevin Kane
and All-ACC defenders Rick Marvin and Bucky Buckley.
As a unit, though, the group has excelled, givinglip but
one goal in the first four Tar Heel games.
The excellence of the defense has freed Ainslie to be
more aggressive and help the offense. "Defense is my
first concern," he said. "But Rick and Bucky rarely need
any help, so I can go off and do my own thing. I like to
attack."
UNC coach Anson Dorrance has used Ainslie at striker
as well as on defense, and at the end of last season Ainslie
was voted the team's most versatile player. "Throughout
high school I played center-forward," Ainslie said "My
coach said I had an ability to read the game and put me
at sweeper back. In the international games, I played
defense."
Ainslie originally intended to go to Indiana, but when
that fell through he met Dorrance and came to Chapel
Hill. .
"I first met Anson during the regional tryouts." he said.
"His personality was a big plus for me coming here. He
doesn't favor anybody. Everybody is important to him
and it doesn't end at soccer." -
Ainslie sees himself as a better player now than when
he came to Carolina. "J knew last year in the national
tryouts that I was close to being the type of player that I
want to be. I want to make this my profession but I
realize that I still have a lot of improving to do."
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When Ainslie enters a game, he brings the confidence
necessary to a superior player.
"Mental confidence is very important in soccer," he
said. "You need to walk on the field believing you can do
anything. When you doubt, thaf s when you hesitate."
Last year's Tar Heel record of 16-3-5 was one of the
best in the nation; and this year's team has romped in
their first four outings, but Ainslie said certain factors had
prevented Carolina from achieving national recognition.
"I don't think you'll just see Clemson and N.C. State in
the Top 20 this year. I think Duke will be there and so will
we. One of the problems is that we don't have anybody
on the nominating committee for rankings.
- "It's a matter of promotion. There's no reason that a
UNC soccer team coming off of last year should be
ranked no higher than sixth in the southern region." O
Ceff Mock is a staff writer for The Daily Tar Heel.
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OME movies, it seems, are
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overlooked by audiences. The
causes may range from inadequate
publicity to sheer bad timing on the part
of the distributors. My Bodyguard seems
to fit well into this category. With its late
summer release, nearly no-name-cast,
small budget and rather unappealing title,
it appears destined to failure or at best, a
mediocre response.
But as it turns out. My Bodyguard is a
small movie with a big heart. It has
conquered the natural odds against
extolling the virtues of friendship, while,
at the same time, capitalizing on the
emotional aspect of revenge.
The film is the story of a young boy
(Chris Makepeace) who moves from a
private academy to a roughneck high
school in urban Chicago. His life is divided
between the adult world of a hotel, run by
his manager-father (Martin Mull) and his
cavorting grandmother (Ruth Gorden), and
the adolescent world of peer pressure and
extortion, at school.
His first day at the new school is filled
with the normal occurrences: insecurity in
meeting new friends, eagerness to belong
and threats on his life. To combat a gang
of teenage hoods whom he has boldly
defied, he decides on a rather unique
approach to hire a bodyguard.
His choice for the job is a quiet, hulking
kid whose menacing presence leads
everyone to suspect that he has
committed some horrendous crime. The
initial fear in the boy turns into intrigue as
he develops a quiet, secure friendship with
the bodyguard.
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from this point, the film slowly veers
off into a dual personality. The scenes of
extortion and gang threats at school are
realistic and intense (although the "good
kids" are sometimes so corny that the
audiences wonders if they weren't drafted
from the "Brady Bunch"), while the
domestic scenes try to add a comic
element that quickly grows staid. The
problem' is Mull is too
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restrained in his role as the busy father,
while Corden plays the same youth-crazed
grandmother role that she has for the past
10 years.
The redeeming factor of the film comes
in the carefully constructed scenes
between Makepeace and Baldwin. The
friendship is deliberately underplayed, as
is the acting itself. The result is a style
which carefully avoids any high-strung
emotions and . relies instead on quiet,
reflective moments.
It is not the lack of technical
proficiency that the audience notices. It is
the thrill of victory, the fact that moral
ideals and happy endings can be
carelessly tossed about that causes one to
appreciate this film.
In fact, with such movies as Rocky and
Breaking Away, Hollywood has recently
revived films which concentrate less on
high-minded social implications and more
on whether or not the good guys finish on
top.
Despite this, and the promotional
announcement that this film is another
Rocky, a complete winner of a movie it is
not. Unlike Rocky, My Bodyguard has no
strong appealing personality to it. The
ending is too predictable (after all, good
guys don't always lose).
We are left to wonder why the baddies,
who were once so tough, accept the fact
that they are no longer on top. Rather than
hurdling the obstacles set against it, My
Bodyguard seems to be an underdog ot a
film that wins because the other team
didn't show up. O
Tim Pope is a staff writer for The Daily Tar
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