Mohammad Mashriqi

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Mohammad Mashriqi
Personal information
Full name Mohammad Yusef Mashriqi
Date of birth (1987-07-07) 7 July 1987 (age 36)
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*
YearsTeamApps(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
Men's football
Representing Flag of Afghanistan (2013-2021).svg  Afghanistan
SAFF Championship
Winner 2013 Nepal
*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]

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Early life

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

Youth and college

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

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

Afghanistan

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