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{{Infobox Football biography

| playername= Farrukh Quraishi

{{Infobox MMA event

| fullname = Farrukh Quraishi

| nicknamename = PRIDE 2

| image = PRIDE FC II.jpg

| promotion = [[PRIDE Fighting Championships]]

| dateofbirth =

| cityofbirthdate = [[TehranMarch 15]], [[1998]]

| countryofbirthvenue = [[IranYokohama Arena]]

| heightcity = [[Yokohama]]

| currentclub attendance = Retired

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| previousevent = [[PRIDE 1]]

| position = [[Defender (football)|Defender]]

| followingevent = [[PRIDE 3]]

| youthyears = 1971-1974

| youthclubs = [[State University of New York at Oneonta|Oneonta State]]

| years = 1975-1980<br>1981

| clubs = [[Tampa Bay Rowdies]]<br>[[Calgary Boomers]]

| caps(goals) = 77 (0)<br>0 (0)

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'''PRIDE 2''' was a [[mixed martial arts]] event held by [[PRIDE|KRS-PRIDE]] (later renamed PRIDE Fighting Championships). It took place at [[Yokohama Arena]] in [[Yokohama]], [[Japan]] on March 15, 1998. Kazushi Sakuraba, Mark Kerr, Vernon White, and Marco Ruas all made their PRIDE debuts at this event.

'''Farrukh Quraishi''' (born in [[Tehran]], [[Iran]]) is a retired [[Iranian-American]] [[Football (soccer)|football]] player who played for [[Tampa Bay Rowdies]] and [[Calgary Boomers]]. He usually played as a [[Defender (football)|defender]]. He also has served in executive positions for numerous U.S. soccer teams and organizations.

== Results ==

==={{flagicon| BRA}} [[Royler Gracie]] vs. {{flagicon| JPN}} [[Naoki Sano|Yuhi Sano]]===

Gracie defeated Sano by armbar at 33:14 of round 1.

==={{flagicon| BRA}} [[Juan Mott]] vs. {{flagicon| JPN}} [[Akira Shoji]]===

Shoji defeated Mott by submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 3:47 of round 1.

==={{flagicon| JPN}} [[William Roosmalen]] vs. {{flagicon| USA}} [[Ralph White]]===

William Roosmalen defeated Ralph White by KO (knee to the body).

==={{flagicon| JPN}} [[Kazushi Sakuraba]] vs. {{flagicon| USA}} [[Vernon White]]===

==Playing career==

Sakuraba defeated White by submission (armbar) at 6:53 of round 3.

Quraishi was born in Iran, but grew up in London, England. In the late 1960s, Fransico Marcos, who later founded the [[United Soccer Leagues]] (USL), was an assistant coach at [[State University of New York at Oneonta|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 1971, Marcos met Quraishi and convinced him to attend and play soccer at Oneonta State. Over his four years with Oneonta, Quraishi developed into one of the era's best college defenders. He was a member of the 1972 Oneonta team which lost to [[Southern Illinois University Edwardsville|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 [[Division I First-Team All-American (soccer)|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.

==={{flagicon| BRA}} [[Renzo Gracie]] vs. {{flagicon| JPN}} [[Sanae Kikuta]]===

In 1975, the [[Tampa Bay Rowdies]] of the [[North American Soccer League]] selected Quraishi with the first overall pick in the NASL college draft. That season, despite being a rookie, Quarishi was named to the NASL All Star team. However, Quraishi remained committed to his education which he had not yet finished and continued to study while playing. In 1976 he graduated from Oneonta with a [[B.A.|bachelors degree]] in [[sociology]].

Gracie defeated Kikuta by submission (guillotine choke) at :43 round 6.

==={{flagicon| TRI}} [[Gary Goodridge]] vs. {{flagicon| BRA}} [[Marco Ruas]]===

Quraishi struggled with injuries, including a broken ankle, which had a severe negative impact on his career. While he played 21 games as a rookie, he never again saw that many games in a season. In 1976 he played 15 and in 1977 fourteen games. He lost the entire 1978 season but came back strong in 1979, seeing time in eighteen games. However injuries again reduced his playing time and he entered only nine games in 1980. He then moved to the expansion [[Calgary Boomers]] for the 1981 season, but never played a game. At the end of the season, he retired from playing professionally and moved back to Tampa Bay.

Ruas defeated Goodridge by submission (Heel Hook) at 9:09 of round 1.

==={{flagicon| CRO}} [[Branko Cikatic]] vs. {{flagicon| USA}} [[Mark Kerr]]===

==Administrative career==

Cikatic was disqualified for grabbing the ropes at 2:14 of the first round.

While playing with the Rowdies, Quarishi had also served as the team’s assistant director of community relations. In this capacity he got his first taste of managing and developing a team’s infrastructure. While the players are the natural focus of any sport, these players are supported by owners, executives, managers, salesmen, etc. Quarishi 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. As part of his duties in community relations, Quarishi developed soccer leagues and soccer camps throughout the Tampa Bay area. When he returned to Tampa Bay, Caspers Company, a McDonald’s franchise, hired him as its director of public relations. As part of his duties, he placed the McDonald’s name and logo into the public’s awareness through charity and youth events. Among these was the establishment of the McDonald's Sun Bowl International Youth Soccer Tournament. He remained with the company until 1992 when he re-entered the soccer world full time as [[Orlando, Florida]]’s venue director for the [[1994 FIFA World Cup]].

==See also==

After the World Cup, Quraishi became involved in the establishment of [[Major League Soccer]] (MLS). When MLS began developing itself prior to its first season in 1996, Quraishi became part of the process of bringing a franchise to Tampa Bay. When MLS created the [[Tampa Bay Mutiny]], it hired Quraishi as the team’s [[general manager]]. However, his time with the Mutiny did not go as well as his other ventures. Despite a successful season, the Mutiny, which was directly owned by the league, was poorly marketed and had one of the lowest average attendances. As a former public relations expert, this reflected poorly on Quraishi. Then, Mark Fortunat, the team’s director of finance, was charged with embezzling $100,000. While Quraishi was not implicated, the league decided that he was poorly managing the franchise and fired him. As a result, Thomas Rongen, the team’s head coach, resigned and moved to the [[New England Revolution]].^{[http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/11-96/11-06-96/d02sp116.htm]} Despite this dissapointment, Quraishi did not leave soccer management, but became a professional sports consultant for two years before moving to Massachusetts in 1998 to join Massachusetts Professional Soccer where he is the current Chief Operating Officer. Quraishi has also worked as a soccer broadcast announcer and is a member of Master Coach International, which analyzes athletes and teams using proprietary software. Finally, he is a co-owner of three minor league soccer teams, the [[Boston Bulldogs]], the [[Cape Cod Crusaders]] and the [[Boston Renegades]]. In 2004, he joined the [[United Soccer Leagues|USL]] Owners Advisory Council.

* [[List of PRIDE events]]

== External links==

[[State University of New York at Oneonta|Oneonta State]] inducted Quraishi into its Athletic Hall of Fame in 1976.

* [http://www.pridefc.com/ Official PRIDE Website]

* [http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?search=yes&eventid=47 Sherdog.com]

==External links==

* [http://wwwtest.oneonta.edu/academics/athletics/HALLOFFAME/2005/1972team.pdf 1972 Oneonta State Team Photo and Writeup]

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