Paintball Gear, Paintball News, Scenario Paintball » Paintball League Middle East http://propaintball.com Tue, 15 May 2012 07:32:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 ProPaintball player of the week Parham Nazari http://propaintball.com/2010/06/pro-paintball-player-of-the-week-parham-nazari/ http://propaintball.com/2010/06/pro-paintball-player-of-the-week-parham-nazari/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:17:36 +0000 Brandon Mason http://www.propaintball.com/?p=8407 International Pro Paintball Player Parham Nazari plays for team Persian Legend in Iran now. The team is sponsored by Angel and coached by Pro Player Maximus Lundqvist in the tournaments. Parham is without a doubt the best Paintball player currently playing in Asia. Everybody enjoys watching him when he is playing. He is extremely quick, maintains great field awareness and not to mention a phenomenal player!

Name: Parham Nazari

Age: 18

Hometown: Tehran

Any hobbies other than paintball: Football

Previous teams: Datis

Position you play: I play in all positions.

Favorite Pro team: Russian Legion, SK Moscow

Favorite Pro player: Konstantin Fedorov

Favorite tournament accomplishment:

5th place of Intercontinental Cup 2008 at World Cup in Toulouse, France

2nd place in PALM Kish Island Tournament, March 2009

Why do you play Paintball?

This is the only sport that satisfying me.

Who supports you?

My Father and Reza Adjami (Owner of team Persian Legend)

Who helped you become the player you are?

Due to lack of proper support and coaching, I mostly learn paintball through watching paintball videos taken from professional teams. Above that, Mr.Reza Badrian (Datis) and my colleagues in Persian Legend Team were a great help to me.

Why did you leave Datis for Persian Legend?

I had feeling that there was not much to learn in Datis team any more. Beside that, the atmosphere inside the team was in such a condition that the team members were hardly communicating. Above all, decisions were taken during the games by team leader was improper decisions.

Persian Legend team is a talented, motivated and energetic team and in compare to Datis, they are physically more fitted. The team members have excellent communication and they have very much respect to each other and acting like a family.
How many days do you practice in a week?

At the moment I practice 3 days a week because I’m student and I have to study too, but my insistence is to practicing every day since it is very enjoyable to me.

Advice to any new players?

My advice always is to practice more and more.

Mentors?

Not in a proper way, but on a best effort, I try to teach my colleagues whatever I know.

How is the level of Paintball in Iran comparing to Europe?

To my knowledge the Iranian teams are in a very good level of playing compare to European teams and if to be supported, for sure they will be a big competitor to the European and American Paintball Teams.

Further I have to mention that due to limitations and lack of supports and sponsors, paintball became a very expensive sport in Iran and most of the expenses are provided by the players themselves. Only a few clubs are available that their players could afford the expenses for normal practicing and participating in some of the tournaments.

Do you have any plan to play for any European team in future?

Not for the moment, but I think Persian Legend team has a big potential and capacity to be a good and hard competitor to European teams.

Goal for this season?

My goal is to practicing as much as possible in this season and looking towards finding sponsors for participating in European tournaments.

This interview was made possible by ProPaintball.com’s very own Nima Razavi out of Mashhad, Iran.

Also, check out this Paintball Blog out of Singapore which has also done a story on Parham Nazari.

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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.
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Thanks Nima!

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