Dallas Sidekicks Players: #9 Tatu

Record Book and MISL Highlights

Record Book

Tatu owns a number of MISL, CISL, and WISL records as well as most of the Offensive records for the Sidekicks. All of them are documented below.

Note: The last MISL media guide that was published was prior to the 1991-92 season. The same for the CISL (prior to 1997). It is possible that some records were broken in those final seasons, but there is no reliable source to document that possibility.

Major Indoor Soccer League

Regular Season Records

Shots on Goal

Shootout Goals¹

¹-Shootout Goals replaced Penalty Kicks from 1989-2001.

Playoff Records

Points Scored

Game Winning Goals

Shots on Goal

Continental Indoor Soccer League

Regular Season Records

Goals

Powerplay Goals

Assists

Points

Sidekicks Records

Regular Season Records

Goals

Most Multi-Goal Games

Catagory	Number	Date
6 Goal Games	1	1994
5 Goal Games	1	1994 (tied with David Doyle)
4 Goal Games	6	1993
Hat Tricks (Career)	81	n/a
Hat Tricks (Season)	10	1994

Game Winning Goals

Career Speciality Goals

Assists

Points

Penalties in Minutes

Yellow Card Cautions

Games Played

Shots

Playoff Records

Goals

Hat Tricks

Game Winning Goals

Career Overtime Goals

Shootout Goals

Assists

Points

Games

Always Remember the First Time

Sidekicks Highlights

Major Indoor Soccer League

1984-85

• Scored a goal in every MISL arena
• Scored his first two goals as a Sidekick on November 24, 1984 at Baltimore
• Earned multiple points in 30 games
• Recorded 4 Hat Tricks (3 goals)
  1. January 19, 1985 vs Tacoma (first Hat Trick as a Sidekick)
  2. January 22 vs Cosmos
  3. February 10 at Chicago (4 goals)
  4. March 5 at San Diego

• Scored 2 goals at the All Star Game in Cleveland on February 24, 1985
• Scored a goal in 12 consecutive games, then a Sidekicks record.
• amassed 23 goals and 6 assists during this streak
1. January 16 at Cleveland (2 goals)
2. January 17 at Cosmos
3. January 19 vs Tacoma (Hat Trick)
4. January 22 vs Cosmos (Hat Trick)
5. January 26 at Baltimore
6. January 29 at Wichita (2 goals)
7. February 5 vs Chicago (2 goals)
8. February 8 vs Cleveland
9. February 10 at Chicago (4 goals)
10. February 12 at Tacoma (2 goals)
11. February 15 at Las Vegas
12. February 17 vs Baltimore

1985-86

• Scored the goal that tied the score at 3 during the All-Star Game at Chicago on February 18, 1986
• Recorded at least one point in 17 straight games from November 30 (at Wichita) through January 18 (vs Pittsburgh)
• Achieved separate Goal Scoring Streaks of 6, 5, and 4 (twice).
• Earned multiple points in 24 games.
• Scored Hat Tricks twice
  1. November 30, 1985 vs Wichita (4 goals)
  2. January 12, 1986 at Minnesota (5 goals)

   

1986-87

• Assisted on MISL Championship Winning Goal on June 20, 1987
• Received most votes of any player in All-Star balloting.
• Tatu became the first non-Yugoslavian player to become the Scoring Champion.
• Earned 9 Hat Tricks
  1. November 16, 1986 vs St. Louis (Game Winning Goal included)
  2. December 6 vs New York
  3. January 10 vs New York
  4. February 15 vs Kansas City (4 goals, including Game Winner)
  5. March 6 at Baltimore
  6. March 13 at Wichita (including Game Winning Goal)
  7. April 2 vs Cleveland (including Overtime Game Winning Goal)
  8. April 11 at San Diego (included Game Winning Goal)
  9. April 26 at Baltimore (including Game Wining Goal)

   

• Scored a goal in 14 consecutive games between February 7 and March 22, 1987
• Scored multiple goals in 20 games
• Recorded multiple points in 23 games.
• Became 4th player in MISL History to score more than 67 goals in a season.

• Scored 4 Playoff Game Winning Goals
1. May 17 vs Baltimore (Eastern Division Semifinals Game 4)
2. May 31 at Cleveland (Eastern Division Finals Series Winning Goal in Game 5)
3. June 13 vs Tacoma (MISL Championship Game 3)
4. June 14 vs Tacoma (MISL Championship Game 4)

 

• Scored the Overtime Game Winning Goal vs Cleveland on April 2 on a bicycle kick. (see clip)

1987-88

• Scored a goal despite suffering what would be determined to be a season-ending knee injury in the first minute of the first period of Opening Day.

1988-89

• Recorded 2 Hat Tricks
  1. November 25, 1988 at Los Angeles
  2. March 25, 1989 vs Los Angeles

   

• Scored 3 Game Winning Goals
  1. November 25 at Los Angeles
  2. March 31 at Los Angeles
  3. April 8 at Baltimore

   

1989-90

• Scored a club record 11 Game Winning Goals
  1. October 28, 1989 vs San Diego
  2. November 21 at Baltimore
  3. January 12, 1990 at Kansas City (3 goals in the 4th Quarter alone)
  4. January 27 vs Wichita (Overtime Game Winning Goal)
  5. February 11 at Tacoma (Overtime)
  6. February 24 at Cleveland Crunch
  7. March 9 at St. Louis Storm
  8. March 29 vs Tacoma
  9. April 6 vs Kansas City
  10. April 14 at Tacoma
  11. April 21 vs St. Louis Storm

   

• Scored 5 goals in a game for the second time in his career on Opening Day (October 28) vs San Diego.

• Reached 100 points for second time in his career after 6 point (the first ever by a Sidekick) performance on March 29 at Tacoma.
• Recorded a point in 16 consecutive games from February 9 (vs Baltimore) and March 29 at Tacoma.
• Bested his then-team record for most points in a season with a goal vs St. Louis Storm on April 19 (giving him 112 point. He finished with 113 points for the season).

1990-91

• Scored 16 goals and 15 assists in the month of November.
• Scored his 300 career goal on November 30, 1990 vs Wichita
• Earned his his 200th career assist on December 6 vs St. Louis Storm
• Passed the 600 point level for his career on at Baltimore on April 5.
• Scored 5 goals at St. Louis Storm on November 9.
• Recorded 2 assists for the Western Division in the All Star Game on February 13, 1991 at Kansas City.

1991-92

• Recorded 5 Hat Tricks
• Scored 2 Shootout Goals
• Ejected for the first time in his career on November 22, 1991 vs. Tacoma
• Became the 4th player in MISL history to score 400 goals in a career on March 25, 1992 vs. Wichita