The Italian club Pisa, active in… Second Division LeagueToday, Tuesday, August 13, the Algerian international, Mehdi Leris, officially joined the team in anticipation of the new season, but without mentioning any information about the duration of the contract or its financial details, so the Algerian player returned to Italy after only one season of leaving it.
And he fought Lyris (26 years old) Most of his football career was spent in Italy, despite starting out at the obscure French club Montois, where he was discovered by the Italian club Chievo Verona at the age of 15, who added him to their academy before moving to Juventus, where he played for the youth team, then returning to Chievo again, and having other experiences with Sampdoria and Brescia.
The Algerian player moved in the summer of 2023 in a surprise deal to Stoke City, with whom he performed at acceptable levels in the Championship, playing 33 matches in various competitions, during which he scored 3 goals and provided 3 assists.
Nerazzurri and Inzaghi welcome Algeria player Mehdi Leris
The administration said The Nerazzurri In a statement on its official website: “Sporting Clube de Pisa is pleased to announce the positive outcome of the negotiations with Stoke City FC (England) for the permanent acquisition of the player Mehdi Leris, who from today becomes part of the Nerazzurri family.”
“The right winger holds dual Algerian-French citizenship and was born in 1998. Leris returns to Italy after his experience in the Championship with Stoke City (30 matches, scoring two goals and providing two assists),” she added. “His CV includes extensive experience in Italy, where he participated in 94 matches in Serie A, scoring three goals.”
“He has also played 33 matches in the Italian Serie B and is an international player for the Algerian national team (4 matches),” the club concluded its statement by saying: “We warmly welcome Mehdi (Leris) and wish him good luck in wearing our colours.” In turn, Pisa coach Filippo Inzaghi stated that he will be counting on Leris in the coming period.
Mehdi Leris plans to return to the “Greens” team
Algerian international Mehdi Leris plans to return to the Algerian national team’s accounts in the coming period, and try to convince the new coach, Swiss Vladimir Petkovic, who has supervised two camps so far, and is preparing for a third camp at the beginning of next month in preparation for the matches against Equatorial Guinea and Liberia in the opening of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers scheduled to be held in Morocco.
Mehdi Leris is good at playing on the right flank, either as a right back or a winger, as he has been used in both positions intermittently throughout his football career, which made him described as a multi-position player; due to his mastery of defensive and offensive roles at the same time.
The right-back position in the Algerian national team has been suffering from major problems recently, in light of the fact that Petkovic’s first two options are currently without a club, namely Youssef Atal and Kevin Guitoune, which makes the competition for this position open to all possibilities, which is what Leris seeks to exploit in the hope of returning to the “Greens”.
