ProPaintball.com Player of the Week: Aco Amir
This past weekend was host to the 4th and final event of the Iran Paintball League. Pro paintball player Maximus Lundqvist who played 3 of the seasons events said the event ran flawlessly! Pro Paintball representative Nima Razavi had a chance to sit down with pro paintball player Aco Amir of the Iranian national team DATIS. Aco Amir recently led his team to a season sweep in the Iran Paintball League. Read on for more about Aco Amir and paintball in Iran.
Name: Aco Amir
Age: 24
Hometown: Tehran (Capital of Iran).
Hobbies other than paintball: Other Sports such Snowboarding and absolutely Basketball, PlayStation3 (PES 2010), Poker , 100 % Girls :D !
Team: National Paintball Team of Iran ( DATIS ), Demons Red ( Malaysia ) guest player.
Position you play: Depends on the game; everywhere, middle player.
Favorite pro team: DATIS of course! Then, DYNASTY.
Favorite pro players: Aco Amir (duh!) but Ollie Lang is outstanding!
Best tournament accomplishment? Overall Chamiponship of PALS (Paintball Asia League Series) in 2006 & 2007 – Overall Championship of IPBL ( Local paintball event in Iran ) for 4 years to now – 5th place of Intercontinental Cup 2008 (held in Toulouse) – 2nd place of Millennium Toulouse World Cup in Div. 2.
Advice to any new players? Train Hard , Win Easy :D Don’t drink & Smoke!
Mentors? My Teammates that have created DATIS and now played with each other for 6 years ( Dr.Babak Esmaeily & Reza Badrian ).
How is paintball different in Iran out of USA?
Actually I don’t have any experience with the American tournaments but its obvious they had too much practice time and this kind of level appears when you are playing too many tournament during the season that they have. Don’t have an idea about Russia and Southern California because I never play against their teams. Right now I’m playing for Demons Red as a guest player in Malaysia. In Malaysia you have too many events during the season and but it helps toward growing and improving the paintballers skills. Right now they are not able to play professional as team, but in next 1 or 2 years they’ll see the new level of paintball in whole country because they are the organizers of all the asian paintball events. In the end, about home country and DATIS, I can say the only team in whole Asia continent that playing paintball in the professional level is this old famous team and The Only Player Maker Team in Iran. I’ve played with this team for 6 years and we are the overall champions in the entire country for 5 years! The trophy room of DATIS is full of the Medals and cups from all around the middle east, Asia and Europe. DATIS sponsored by Planet Eclipse (Ego 10 + Gear ), Dye ( Rotor & i4 & Navi ), JT ( Attackpacks & Bags ) for this following year . Paintball in Iran right now is not very professional at all and this is the big problem for teams like DATIS for training. The latest news up coming out of Iran is that next year is going to be better and we will see the other top teams in Div.1 like Persian Legends, they keep training hard and I’m happy to see these guys are showing the better level of their team.
Goal for this season?I’m is in the middle of 3 different seasons of paintball but I’m happy for myself in Malaysia because I could show the Professional level ofpaintball and trying to make my team more aggressive for the overall championship here at end of this year.
Aco and his team Datis won this tournament beating Persian Legend in the Final. So Datis won all the tournaments in Iran in this year (4 events, 4 wins for Aco & DATIS). Now, DATIS and Persian Legend are in Thailand for Pattaya International Paintball Tournament (It’s the 1st leg of PALS-Paintball Asia League Series). They will both compete in Division 1. The event will take place on 12th & 13th of March.
Pro Paintball would like to thank Aco Amir and Nima Rizavi for their time. In addition, we would like to congratulate the paintball players in Iran for taking their game to the next level.
This article was authored by Brandon Mason – who has written 35 paintball news and gear articles.
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25 Comments
That is awesome! Congratulations Aco!
Cuba looks like he could be a local haha.
He says not to smoke but he’s rockin the leave.
do work!
Thanks Tyler ;)
hey peter never smoke !!!!
Congratulations Aco! ;)
Congratulations Aco, Nice to see you on TOP!
I follow you guys on twitter. It was crazy watching you guys go through everything that went on in your country last year. I am glad you were still able to play the sport you love! Keep it up. Teams like yours are doing awesome things for paintball worldwide!
Congrats Buddy! :)
SoI’v learned a lot out of Aco’s comment. Specially the of DrinK and Smoke! so I decide to quite as soooon as possible! :))
Aco is GREAT player! I love watching his style of playing. He shoots people left and right in the field.
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Congratulations NO1
khafaaaaaaaaan :D
Congratulations Acooooooooo ;)
thank u all !!!!
Shiiiiiiiiiiiire Acooli !
Shahin ! Yani mikhay 6 sal talashe Bobby be andazeye ye commente “Don’t drink & smoke ” ham asar nadashte bashe ?! ;)
are vagheanG, enghadr az khodam be khodesh motehavekGh shodam ke bafahmidam chi neveshtam! khodaiish sangin omade. faghat sefaresh be namaze shab va vozoie ghabl az eftar ro ham ageh gosh zad mikard haghe matlabo ada karde bud!
ACOOOOOMBA…. congrats mate!!
Beside Aco’s playing style,there is a little important thing that I’ve got the honor to mention;Aco’s got a complete different manner amongst all paintball players I’ve ever seen.He is aggressive but only in the field;He leaves his anger in the field and shows the same attitude he had before a game.Briefly,He’s “the boy”
Congrats my man…Wish u be on top every time and thanks for noticing our team progress in your interview.
Cheeeeeerrss
And a big thanks to Nima . The first and only paintball reporter in Iran cooperating with some websites and magazines abroad . Keep going Nima , Iran paintball needs helps of guys like you .
Acooooooooo ….rock oooon!!!
thank u alll !!!
hey do any one know ther is any paintball store in kish island or not any help would be appriciated thanks.
JUST ARSEN PAINT BALL TEAM AND 3 BROTHERS YE MEN 3 BROTHERS! Harki goft in comment male ki hast jayze dare !
Congratulations Aco
You are one of the best.
eyvallllllllllllllllllll aco.vali man jato migiram