This Date in Dallas Sidekicks History

July 20

Future Opponents

• 1992: The National Professional Soccer League awarded a franchise to the city of Baltimore on this date.
  • The team, founded on July 16, 1992, would announce the nickname "Spirit" on July 27, 1992.
  • The Spirit would change their name to the Baltimore Blast on June 30, 1998.

Birthdays

• 1952: Steve Parker
  • Trainer 2000-current
• 1968: John Olu-Molomo

Medical Study

• 1989: 3 Dallas researchers published a study saying the then-common practice of football players breathing pure oxygen on the sidelines assists in regaining stamina and makes for better performance on the field.
  • The researches used 12 members of the Dallas Sidekicks as test subjects for the study.

He Said It

• 1988:

  We have damaged whatever credibility we did have, We've been our own worst enemies and cost the credibility of the league and the (Sidekicks)....

  -then coach Gordon Jago speaking to the Dallas Morning News about the recent labor fight between the players and MISL team owners.
  

By The Numbers

• 1993: The CISL's use of the size 4 ball, which is used internationally for indoor play, rather than the traditional size 5 ball used outdoors and in all other pro indoor leagues before and since, increased goal scoring through the first 5 weeks of the season by 22% over the same time period in the previous Major Soccer League season (1991-92).
  • 15.1 goals per game were scored during the first 5 weeks of play in the CISL's 1993 season.

Regular Season Games

• 1996: at Washington Warthogs 7 Sidekicks 2