Background
Mashriqi"s soccer lineage started with his father, Tahir, a former member of the Afghanistan national team
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Mohammad Mashriqi
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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
During his college years, Mashriqi also played in the USL Premier Development League for Bakersfield Brigade in 2006 and 2007, and with the Brooklyn Knights in 2009
Mashriqi trained with the Under-17 squad of prestigious club Paris Saint-Germain, 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 Master of Library Science Reserve Division, while simultaneously playing for New York-area amateur team Brishna F.C.
Career
Tahir took his family and fled to Pakistan. They reached the United States. Embassy, and in 1985 they were safely in the United States. After settling in the Flushing, New York area, Mohammad was born two years later, in 1987.
Youth and college International He played in both of Afghanistan"s qualifying games for the 2014 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup against Palestine 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.
Membership
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. Mashriqi was a member of the United States. Under-14 National Team, but switched his international allegiance to his father"s country, Afghanistan in 2010.
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