Versatile Player Across All Lines at Tractor! (Photo)

With coaching changes and shifts across various positions, Mehdi Shiri continues to find his way into the lineups of title-contending teams.

According to Sport Se, to find Mehdi Shiri on the field, you can no longer look only at the right side of the defense line. The player who was known as a right defender for many years has now reached the midfield in the tractor and in the last match of this team against Al-Shamal, he took the place of Mehdi Hosseini at the beginning of the second half so that Javad Nekonam will use him once again among his midfielders.

Of course, this feature has not been added to Shiri's portfolio since the days of being in the tractor. Majid Jalali sometimes used him in the defensive midfielder position in Pikan to allow the transfer of other players in the midfield. Before moving to Persepolis, Shiri also had the experience of moving away from the edge of the line and playing in the center of the field.

In Persepolis, Branko Ivankovic, Gabriel Calderon and Yahya Golmohammadi all gave him the field and Shiri was able to find his place in the team during the period of all three head coaches. Changing the bench for him meant starting the competition again, but the Reds' right-back adapted to the taste of different coaches and his presence in the team continued.

Even separation from Persepolis did not stop this path. Nekonam welcomed Shiri in Foulad and soon gave him a different responsibility. While Mojtaba Najarian was playing on the right side of the defense, Shiri went to the left wing so that both of them were in the lineup at the same time. He also scored a goal in the same position, and in front of the fans, Nekonam was again chosen for the left defense. After the change of Foulad head coach, Shiri returned to Alireza Mansooryan's team after recovering from injury.

The tractor increased the scope of these transfers. Pako Khams used him as a right winger and Dragan Skocic gave his old student more varied responsibilities. One of the clear examples was the match with Aluminum, where in the absence of Igor Postunsky and Mehdi Hosseini, Shiri was placed next to Ricardo Alves in the center of the field and moved with the Portuguese midfielder during the game.

Skocic went to the same player on the other side of the field. Shiri played left defense against Khyber, and in the Asian match against Roshan Tajikistan, after the injury of Mohammad Naderi, he took responsibility for that side. Right-back, left-back, defensive midfielder, central midfielder and full-back all became parts of the repertoire of a player that the coach could count on to fill the gaps in his squad.

This trust did not end with the departure of Skocic. Mohammad Rabiei, who did not give Shiri a chance to play in the first two matches, placed him next to Odil Khamrubkov in the absence of Tibor Halilovic against Golgohar. Shiri stayed on the field until the end of that match and his performance earned the praise of the new head coach of Tractor. Now, Nekonam has the same player again to perform different missions.

At 35, Shiri still finds a way to get a chance with every change on the bench. Sometimes he is in the lineup from the beginning and sometimes he enters the field between the two halves to change the game conditions. His jersey number is two in Traktor, but his range of work has long gone beyond right back. Any line coach needs, Mehdi is available!