Farrukh Quraishi
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | November 13, 1951 | ||
| Place of birth | Masjid-I-Sulaiman, Iran | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1972–1974 | Oneonta State | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1980 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 77 | (0) |
| 1979–1980 | Tampa Bay Rowdies (indoor) | 13 | (2) |
| 1980–1981 | Calgary Boomers (indoor) | 14 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Farrukh Quraishi (Persian: فرخ قریشی, born November 13, 1951 in Masjid-I-Sulaiman, Iran) is a retired Iranian-born English footballer. He spent six seasons in the North American Soccer League playing for the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Calgary Boomers. Since retiring from playing, he has held numerous executive positions in U.S. soccer teams and organizations. Quraishi won the 1974 Hermann Trophy. Most recently he was the President and General Manager of the modern Tampa Bay Rowdies.
Quraishi was born in Iran, but grew up in London, England. In the late 1960s, Francisco Marcos, who later founded the United Soccer Leagues (USL), was an assistant coach at Oneonta State and a fledgling soccer entrepreneur. He had created American International Sports Exchange to coordinate overseas soccer tours for U.S. teams. On one of these trips in 1970, Marcos met Quraishi and convinced him to attend and play soccer at Oneonta State. Over his three years with Oneonta, Quraishi developed into one of the era's best college players. He was a member of the 1972 Oneonta team which lost to SIU-E in the NCAA Division II championship game. That year he was selected to the 1972 State University of New York Conference All Conference team, an honor he repeated in 1973 and 1974. Although the team did not advance as far his junior and senior year, he was showered with accolades, being named a first team All American in 1973 and 1974. He capped this when he was named the 1974 Hermann Trophy winner as the best collegiate player in the nation.Oneonta State inducted Quraishi into its Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.
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