Mohammad Yusef Mashriqi

Mohammad Yusef  Mashriqi was born on the Jul;y 7^th, 1987. He is a footballer from Afghanistan that plays for the reserve team of New York Red Bulls and he is also a member of the Afghanistan national team. In the year 2013 he joined the Indian club called Bhawanipore FC.

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 Early Life

Yusef’s football lineage began with the father, Tahir, who was aformer member of the national team of the country. When the country was taken over by the communist during the 10-years afghan war, football took a back seat to the father of Yusef and his wife,Safora and their son Sabir and their daughter Sabira who were five and three at that time. Tahir took his family and went to Pakistan. They got to the United States Embassy and in the year 1985 they were secured in America. After settling in the Flushing, New York city, Yusef was born two years later in the year 1987.

Youth and College Career

Yusef went to Flushing High School and from the age of 9 he started playing for the popular Blau Weiss Gottschee club in New York City, and he won Four State Cup Championship. Yusef was a part of the regional ODP from the year 2001 to the year 2005 and he played for the Brooklyn Knights in the USL Super-Y league and this assisted them in getting to the national semifinals. He was with them for four years for the soccer at the Long Island University.

At the time of his college years, Yusef played also for USL Premier Development League for Bakersfield Brigade in the year 2006 and the year 2007 and he played with the Brooklyn Knights in the year 2009.

Yusef was permitted to train with the Under-17 team of respected team Paris Saint-Germain and with the New York Red Bulls of the Major league football at the 2008 pre-season. Yusef is presently playing as a part of the reserve team for the New York Red Bulls that plays in the MLS Reserves Division as he was gradually playing for the New York City amteur team called Brishna FC.

International Career

Yusef was a member of the United States Under-14 National Team, though he he shifted his international football role to his country, Afghanistan in the year 2010

Yusef played football both in the qualifying games of his country for the 2014 FIFA World Cup against Palestine in July, 2011. He scored his first international goal for his country in the 8-1 win over Bhutan in the quarter final of the 2011 SAFF Championship on the 7^th December, 2011.