Aco Amir

Aco Amir is an Iranian tournament paintball player from Tehran who played for 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 Iranian national league campaign that ended in March 2010, defeating 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

1. Datis Paintball, main player profiles, archived 30 April 2007.
2. ProPaintball.com, “Player of the Week: Aco Amir”, 9 March 2010, reproduced by JR Dominguez 32 Paintball on 10 March 2010.
3. European Paintball Federation, 2013 Annual Report, World Cup results and national team rosters, pp. 24–26.
4. Seburo, “MPOC Rankings Updated”, 24 April 2010, reproducing a Malaysian Paintball Official Circuit notice.
5. Overshot: A Paintball Podcast, episode 68, “Iranian paintball with Datis paintball team”, 29 December 2020.