Editing Aco Amir

'''Aco Amir''' is an Iranian tournament paintball player from Tehran who played for [[Datis (Iran Paintball Team)|Datis]]. The European Paintball Federation listed him on Iran's national team roster for the 2013 Paintball World Cup in France.[1][2][3]

== Playing career ==

The Datis player profiles archived on 30 April 2007 list Amir as a middle player wearing number 69. In a March 2010 interview with ProPaintball.com, he named Datis teammates Babak Esmaeily and Reza Badrian as his mentors.[1][2]

ProPaintball.com reported that Amir and Datis won all four rounds of the [[Iran National Paintball League|Iranian national league]] campaign that ended in March 2010, defeating [[Persian Legend (Iran Paintball Team)|Persian Legend]] in the final. In the same interview, Amir said he was playing as a guest for Demons Red in Malaysia. A Malaysian Paintball Official Circuit notice published the following month listed him with the team under the spelling Demonz Red.[2][4]

Amir was listed as a player on Iran's roster for the Paintball World Cup held from 13 to 15 September 2013 at Chantilly, France. Iran finished 16th out of 24 national teams.[3]

== Interviews ==

On 29 December 2020, Amir appeared with Babak Esmaeily and Nima Razavi on ''Overshot: A Paintball Podcast'' to discuss competitive paintball in Iran.[5]

== See also ==

* [[Datis (Iran Paintball Team)]]
* [[Iranian paintball]]

== References ==

# [https://web.archive.org/web/20070430181236/http://www.datispaintball.com:80/pages/profile.asp Datis Paintball, main player profiles, archived 30 April 2007.]
# [https://jrdominguez32paintball.blogspot.com/2010/03/propaintballcom-player-of-week-aco-amir.html ProPaintball.com, “Player of the Week: Aco Amir”, 9 March 2010, reproduced by JR Dominguez 32 Paintball on 10 March 2010.]
# [https://www.epbf.info/ra_data/files/Annual%20report%202013.pdf European Paintball Federation, 2013 Annual Report, World Cup results and national team rosters, pp. 24–26.]
# [https://seburo.blogspot.com/2010/04/?m=0 Seburo, “MPOC Rankings Updated”, 24 April 2010, reproducing a Malaysian Paintball Official Circuit notice.]
# [https://www.buzzsprout.com/922351/episodes/7040662-ep-68-iranian-paintball-with-datis-paintball-team Overshot: A Paintball Podcast, episode 68, “Iranian paintball with Datis paintball team”, 29 December 2020.]

[[Category:Iranian paintball players|Amir, Aco]]