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

[4] In 1975, the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League selected Quraishi with the first overall pick in the NASL college draft.

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

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.

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 president and general manager.

Despite a successful inaugural season, the Mutiny, which was one of three teams directly owned by the league, had one of the lowest average attendances in MLS.

Reasons given for 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.

As a result of Quraishi's firing, Thomas Rongen, the team's head coach, resigned and moved to the New England Revolution.

[5] Despite this disappointment, 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 served as executive vice president and chief operating officer, overseeing the management of the Boston Bulldogs, the Cape Cod Crusaders and the Boston Renegades.. Quraishi also worked as a soccer broadcast announcer and worked with Master Coach International, a match and player video analysis company that developed proprietary software.