Yamrali was born in Kabul.[1] In 1985, when Yamrali was three years old and the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, his family fled from Kabul to Gumbat, Iran.[2] Three years later, they moved to Hamburg, Germany.[2]
Club career
Yamrali started playing club football at the age of 11, for SC Poppenbüttel[3] and also played youth football for Hamburger SV and TSV Sasel.[2] Having a suffered a shin fracture in May 2001, he had become a regular starter for SC Victoria Hamburg, playing in the fifth-tier Verbandsliga Hamburg, by November.[2]