Sockers Host Dallas and Tatu
October 4, 2002 - Major Indoor Soccer League 2 (MISL 2)
San Diego Sockers News Release
Oct. 3, 2002 â The San Diego Sockers renew an old rivalry this Saturday (Oct. 5) as they host the Dallas Sidekicks in Major Indoor Soccer League action at the Sports Arena. Game time is 7 p.m.
The Sockers are looking to get into the win column after falling to the Milwaukee Wave 13-4 last Saturday in the season opener. Chile Farias and Mariano Bollella scored two-point goals for the Sockers, who outshot Milwaukee 35-29.
Tatu Starts Farewell Tour: This is the first of three visits by Dallas this season, which will be player/coach Tatu's last as an active player. The Brazilian indoor legend scored with eight-tenths of a second left to play last Saturday to lift the Sidekicks to a 14-13 victory over reigning MISL champion Philadelphia.
Tatu's 39 points on 13 goals and 26 assists led the Sidekicks in 2001, when Dallas finished 14-10 in the CISL, the same as San Diego. He earned MISL Offensive Player of the Week honors for his hat trick and assist against Philadelphia. He now has 840 goals and 700 assists in 601 regular-season games. His final two visits as a player in San Diego come on Sunday, Nov. 10, and Sunday Jan. 12, both 6 p.m. games.
Pernia Brothers Square Off: It will be brother against brother on the field, with San Diego's Gaston Pernia facing younger brother Leo, a defender for Dallas. Leo was playing for the Seattle Seadogs in the CISL in 1995 when he suggested that coach Fernando Clavijo take a look at his brother. Gaston joined the team in '96 and helped Seattle claim the CISL title in '97. Both Pernias also have experience in the NPSL (the current MISL).
Free Schedule Magnets, Parking: The first 5,000 fans to enter the Sports Arena for Saturday's game will receive free Sockers magnet schedules courtesy of Papa Murphy's Pizza. Parking is free at all Sockers home games this season. Tickets to Sockers home games are priced at $10, $14, $18 and $25 and are available at the Sports Arena box office and through Ticketmaster, which can be accessed at www.sockers.com.
Ladouceur, Namdar Return: The Sockers alumnus featured as the guest in the Legends seating section this week is Jacques Ladouceur, who played on six championship teams in the late '80s and early '90s and is second on the Sockers' career games-played list (to Kevin Crow) with 341. Joining play-by-play announcer Scott Kaplan as color commentator on the KPOP-1360 AM broadcast will be former Sockers forward Cha Cha Namdar. Namdar joined the Sockers in the 1982-83 season and played on four championship teams through 1986-87, then rejoined the club during the 1993 and 1994 seasons in the CISL. The native of Iran who played college soccer at Texas Tech is 20th on the all-time Sockers scoring list with 109 points.
Sockers, Sidekicks Old Foes: Dallas and San Diego, who have played in three different leagues together, met last December in the World Indoor Soccer League championship final, with Dallas scoring a shorthanded goal for a 2-1 win in the deciding mini-game to claim the final WISL crown.
Dallas joined the original MISL in 1984-85 as a revival of a failed New Jersey Rockets franchise that played one season (1981-82). The Sockers are 41-20 in the regular season against Dallas: 34-12 in the old MISL (including a remarkable 23-1 mark in San Diego), 3-6 in the CISL and 4-2 in the WISL. The Sockers hold a narrow 14-11 advantage in playoff games against the Sidekicks.
It was the Sidekicks who captured the 1986-87 MISL crown to interrupt San Diego's string of 10 titles. Both clubs moved to the Continental Indoor Soccer League in 1993, where the Sidekicks edged the Sockers in the finals that year. Dallas won the Premier Soccer Alliance/WISL crown in '98 and repeated in 2001.
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