Luca Zidane is a French professional footballer who plays for Real Madrid as a goalkeeper. The son of a famous football player and coach Zinedine Zidane. He played in the youth team of France until the age of 17, where he became the European champion. He went through all the age groups of the French national team, but has not yet been called up to the main national team.
The height of Luke Zidane is 183 centimeters, weight - about 78 kg. As part of the "galacticos" is the champion of Spain, the winner of the Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and Club World Cup. In the club of Madrid is the third goalkeeper after Kiko Casilla and Thibaut Courtois. Performs under number 30. In the popular FIFA football simulator, Luca Zidane has a rating of 63, which grows to 73 over the course of several seasons.
Biography: early career of a football player
Born May 13, 1998 in the city of Marseille, France. At an early age, he began to show interest in football, because his father is the legendary Zinedine Zidane, who is the 1998 world champion and the owner of the 1998 Golden Ball, awarded to the best football player in the world.
However, the son of a famous football player chose a slightly different path - he did not become an attacking player, but decided to take a place at the goal in order to repeat and surpass the success of goalkeepers such as Fabien Barthez and Gianluigi Buffon. Luca is a graduate of the Real Madrid Football Academy, he has been playing football here since 2004. In 2008, the guy won the Youth Champions League Cup.
The first training session with the core team of the Real Madrid club
Goalkeeper Luca Zidane began to be involved in the first team of cream since 2016, but he never went on the field, limiting himself to training with Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo and other football stars of the royal club.
In the summer off-season of 2016, Luke went with the first team to training camps in Canada and the United States of America. In the same year, the goalkeeper officially became a player of the team Real Madrid Castilla, which is a cream club of the farm. Here he made his debut in the match of the first round of “Segunda B” against the team “Real Sociedad B”, the match ended in victory for the first with a score of 3: 2.
On May 19, 2018, Zidane held his first official match in the “creamy” against “Villarreal”, which ended in a draw with a score 2: 2.
International career with France youth teams
In 2014, Luca Zidane made his debut for the youth team of France under the age of sixteen in a friendly match against peers from Italy. In total, in this age category he took part in three official matches.
The next step in the early career of the French goalkeeper was a challenge to the junior team of France until the age of seventeen, for which he made his debut on October 27, 2014 in a match with the national team of Cyprus. As part of the same team, Luca Zidane took part in the 2015 European Youth Championship. He managed to win the competition among goalkeepers in the team and became the main one for all five matches of the European forum.
In the match against the Belgian national team, Zidane became a real hero, reflecting three hits in a penalty shootout. Luke also went to the penalty spot and shot at goal in the style of Panenki, hitting the crossbar. According to the results of the championship, the French became European champions in the age category under seventeen, defeating the German national team in the final standoff.
In subsequent years, Luke appeared in the youth teams of the French national team until eighteen, nineteen and twenty years old. In total, he played thirteen official matches for these teams.
Style of play: why is L. Zidane the best goalkeeper among the youth of Real Madrid?
Spanish football experts and coaches note that Luca Zidane is endowed with high technical abilities, flexibility and physical strength. In addition, the French goalkeeper is a reference example of a one-on-one game of exits; it has excellent goalkeeper techniques for its age and phenomenally plays with its feet. In acute and dangerous situations at his gates, Luka remains calm and calm - he can beat the striker attacking him with a fraudulent movement and give the transfer to partners in a timely and accurate manner.
Together, all these qualities make Zidane the best goalkeeper of the youth system of the royal club Real Madrid. Currently, Luka is the third goalkeeper in the “cream”. The first and indisputable is the Belgian Thibaut Courtois, whom Real acquired in the summer of 2018. His understudy is Kiko Casilla, and Zidane is the reserve goalkeeper.
Personal life
As noted above, Luca Zidane is the second son of the famous football player and coach Zinedine Zidane. His older brother Enzo and the younger Theo and Eliaz also play football, training in various age groups of the Real Madrid club.
On his page on the Instagram social network, Luca Zidane often uploads photo and video materials from training sessions in Real Madrid. In addition, the footballer shares photos with leisure activities - often he can be seen on the seashore or resting with his girlfriend on the beach. More than one million people are subscribed to the son of a famous football player. The name of his girlfriend Luke is hiding.