It’s a return home that Luca Zidane has been experiencing for several days. Born in Marseille in May 1998, a few weeks before the 1998 World Cup won by the French team with a double headed by his father Zinédine Zidane, the 28-year-old goalkeeper grew up in Madrid (where “Zizou” arrived in 2001) and was trained at Casa Blanca. He made two appearances for the Whites first team before leaving the club in 2020.
Six years later, he joined Leganés, another Liga 2 club but based in the Madrid suburbs, after two seasons in Granada. The good periods of Luca Zidane, sometimes named best goalkeeper of the weekend in the segundaobviously allowed him to join the Algerian team and, better, to be the number 1 of the Greens at the last African Cup of Nations in Morocco then at the 2026 World Cup (elimination in the round of 16 against Switzerland, on July 2).
“In the end, everyone knew we were Zidane’s sons”
Before his debut with Leganés, Luca Zidane was asked by Madrid media about his childhood in the capital. Enough to remind us that his parents had registered their boys at school under their mother’s name. “At school, we used my mother’s last name, Fernandez, to protect us. It wasn’t because people looked at me differently, it was just to protect us a little.”he explains to a radio station. “In the end, everyone knew we were Zidane’s sons”concludes the second of the siblings.
Luca Zinedine Zidane Fernandez (his full name) also pays tribute to his mother Véronique: “she was the one who was at home, who educated us and who was behind the homework. » The goalkeeper says that it was his big brother, Enzo, three years older than him, who put him in the goals. “He told me it was better, I don’t know if he cheated on me”laughs the Algerian international.
