Mohammad Mashriqi
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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Mohammad Yusef Mashriqi | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 July 1987 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Flushing, New York | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Blau Weiss Gottschee | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Long Island Blackbirds | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008– | New York Red Bulls | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Bakersfield Brigade | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Brooklyn Knights | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Jersey Express S.C. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Brishna F.C. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Bhawanipore F.C. | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | United Cyclones Soccer Club | ||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | United States U15 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011– | Afghanistan | 30 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of February 01, 2016 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of February 01, 2016 | |||||||||||||||||
Mohammad Yusef Mashriqi (born 7 July 1987) is an American-born Afghan professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder. He has represented the Afghanistan national team.[1]
Early life
[edit]Mashriqi's soccer lineage started with his father, Tahir, a former member of the Afghanistan national team.[citation needed] When communists took control of his country during the 10-year Afghanistan War, soccer took a back seat to survival for Tahir and his wife, Safora, and their son Sabir and daughter, Sabira, who were 5 and 3 at the time. Tahir took his family and fled to Pakistan. They reached the U.S. Embassy, and in 1985 they were safely in the United States.[2] After settling in the Flushing, New York area, Mohammad was born two years later, in 1987.
Career
[edit]Youth and college
[edit]Mashriqi attended Flushing High School and from the age of nine played for the famed Blau Weiss Gottschee club in New York, winning four State Cup championships. He was a member of his regional ODP from 2001 to 2005, and played for the Brooklyn Knights in the USL Super-Y League, helping them reach the national semifinals. He played four years of college soccer at Long Island University.[3]
During his college years, Mashriqi also played in the USL Premier Development League for Bakersfield Brigade in 2006 [4] and 2007,[5] and with the Brooklyn Knights in 2009.[6]
Mashriqi trained with the Under-17 squad of prestigious club Paris Saint-Germain,[2] and with the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer during their 2008 pre-season. Mashriqi is currently a part of the reserve squad for New York Red Bulls which plays in the MLS Reserve Division, while simultaneously playing for New York-area amateur team Brishna F.C.[citation needed]
International
[edit]Mashriqi was a member of the U.S. Under-14 National Team,[7] but switched his international allegiance to his father's country, Afghanistan in 2010.[citation needed]
He played in both of Afghanistan's qualifying games for the 2014 FIFA World Cup against Palestine[8][9] in July 2011, and scored his first international goal for Afghanistan in its 8–1 victory over Bhutan in the quarter-finals of the 2011 SAFF Championship on December 7, 2011.[10]
After being absent for almost 2 years Mashriqi was called up for the friendly match against Malaysia in October 2016.
Honours
[edit]Afghanistan
References
[edit]- ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "NFT player — National team & Club appearances: Mashriqi, Mohammad Yusef". national-football-teams.com. National Football Teams. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
- ^ a b "Five Boro Sports". fiveborosports.com. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ "Mohammed Mashriqi - 2008 Men's Soccer". liuathletics.com. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ "United Soccer Leagues (USL)". Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ "United Soccer Leagues (USL)". Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ "United Soccer Leagues (USL)". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- ^ "Flushing's Mashriqi named to national team". timesledger.com. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ FIFA.com. "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil - Matches - Palestine-Afghanistan". fifa.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ FIFA.com. "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil - Matches - Afghanistan-Palestine". fifa.com. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- ^ "Breaking his duck: Mashriqi scores 1st international goal in Afghanistan's 8–1 Cup win". bigapplesoccer.com. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
External links
[edit]- Long Island University bio
- Mohammad Mashriqi at National-Football-Teams.com
- bigapplesoccer.com
- infosportinc.com
- brishnafc.com
- 1987 births
- Living people
- American men's soccer players
- Afghan men's footballers
- Afghanistan men's international footballers
- United States men's youth international soccer players
- American people of Afghan descent
- Men's association football midfielders
- Expatriate men's footballers in India
- Afghan expatriate men's footballers
- Afghan expatriate sportspeople in India
- American expatriate men's soccer players
- American expatriate sportspeople in India
- Long Island University alumni
- People from Flushing, Queens
- Calcutta Football League players