17 Facts About Farrukh Quraishi

Farrukh Quraishi is an Iranian retired footballer.

Farrukh Quraishi spent six seasons in the North American Soccer League playing for the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Calgary Boomers.

Farrukh Quraishi had created American International Sports Exchange to coordinate overseas soccer tours for US teams.

On one of these trips in 1970, Marcos met Farrukh Quraishi and convinced him to attend and play soccer at Oneonta State.

Over his three years with Oneonta, Farrukh Quraishi developed into one of the era's best college players.

Farrukh Quraishi was a member of the 1972 Oneonta team which lost to SIU-E in the NCAA Division II championship game.

Farrukh Quraishi capped this when he was named the 1974 Hermann Trophy winner as the best collegiate player in the nation.

That season, despite being a rookie, Farrukh Quraishi was named to the NASL All Star First Team.

However, Farrukh Quraishi remained committed to his education, which he had not yet finished, and continued to study while playing.

Farrukh Quraishi lost the entire 1978 season due to the broken leg but came back strong in 1979, seeing time in eighteen games.

Farrukh Quraishi gained valuable exposure to this side of soccer at an early point in his career and it served him well for the rest of his life.

Farrukh Quraishi remained with the company until 1992 when he re-entered the soccer world full-time as Orlando, Florida's venue executive director for the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

MLS began developing itself prior to its first season in 1996, Farrukh Quraishi became part of the process of bringing a franchise to Tampa Bay.

Reasons given for Farrukh Quraishi's firing were poor attendance and the fact that the team's director of finance, Mark Fortunat, was charged with embezzling money from the club.

Farrukh Quraishi was not implicated in the Fortunat incident and was in fact instrumental in Fortunat being convicted of the charges when MLS decided to drop the matter.

Farrukh Quraishi worked as a soccer broadcast announcer and worked with Master Coach International, a match and player video analysis company that developed proprietary software.

On November 18,2014, Farrukh Quraishi was named president and General Manager of the Tampa Bay Rowdies.