Amirali Hasanzadeh was a young futsal player in Ansar al-Mahdi team.
Majid Eslami, his futsal coach, described him as a boy of great character and warm manners, someone whose behavior drew all the players of the team toward him. Amirali was very talented, and his technique was well known among his teammates.
But what remained from him was not only his skill. He treated his teammates like brothers and true friends, and everyone in the team remembered him with affection. He was also always among the first in cultural activities. Even on the field, he played with complete fairness and sportsmanship.
His coach said that Amirali’s memory would always remain in the hearts of all his teammates, and that his good character would stay with them forever.
Amirali was also the nephew of Mrs. Kamali, one of the surviving teachers of the school. In the middle of the night, around two or three in the morning, she learned that her own nephew was among the martyrs, and that no trace of his body had yet been found. Her brother-in-law, Amirali’s father, had gone to the school to look for his child. As he was leaving the school, he and the taxi driver were both killed in the second explosion.
Mrs. Kamali later said that their only hope was that perhaps some of them were still under the rubble. There were rumors that some teachers might be in the prayer room. When morning came, someone called and said that Amirali and his father had been seen in the schoolyard at the moment of the explosion, and that both had been killed.
Her brother went to the schoolyard and found Amirali’s father’s shoe.
Amirali was martyred together with his father. He left behind the memory of a child who was not only talented in sport, but gentle in spirit; a boy who played with skill, lived with kindness, and was remembered by his friends as both a teammate and a brother.