Luca Zidane

Luca Zinedine Zidane (born 13 May 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Rayo Vallecano. He is the son of former footballer and current coach of Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane.

Luca Zidane
Personal information
Full name Luca Zinedine Zidane[1]
Date of birth (1998-05-13) 13 May 1998
Place of birth Marseille, France
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Rayo Vallecano
Number 1
Youth career
2004–2018 Real Madrid
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019 Real Madrid B 49 (0)
2018–2020 Real Madrid 2 (0)
2019–2020 → Racing Santander (loan) 33 (0)
2020– Rayo Vallecano 4 (0)
National team
2014 France U16 3 (0)
2014–2015 France U17 14 (0)
2015–2016 France U18 6 (0)
2016 France U19 6 (0)
2018 France U20 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 June 2020

Early life

Luca was born in Marseille, and is the son of the FIFA World Cup-winning French footballer and current Real Madrid Manager Zinedine Zidane and his wife Veronique Fernández.[3] He is the second of four brothers, and all of them – Enzo, Theo, and Elyaz – are footballers who developed at the youth academy of Real Madrid.[4] Luca is of Spanish descent through his mother,[5] and of Algerian descent through his father.[6]

Club career

Luca joined the Real Madrid youth academy at the age of six in 2004 and plays as a goalkeeper.[7] He worked his way up from the academy, eventually joining Castilla, the reserve team.[8]

Luca's father Zinedine Zidane came to manage Real Madrid, and became Luca's manager early in his career.[9] Luca made his professional debut for Real Madrid in their last league game of the 2017–18 season: a 2–2 La Liga tie with Villarreal CF on 19 May 2018.[10][11] During the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League, he was the third-choice goalkeeper, when Madrid won their third consecutive and 13th overall Champions League title.[12]

He was loaned to Racing Santander of Segunda División on 8 July 2019 for the 2019–20 season.[13][14] He made his debut on 17 August in a 1–0 home loss to Málaga CF, in which he suffered an injury to the muscle on the back of his right leg.[15]

On 5 October 2020, he joined Rayo Vallecano.[16]

International career

Born in France to French-born parents of Algerian and Spanish descent, Luca is a youth international for France. He represented the France U17s in their winning campaign at the 2015 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, and the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup.[17] He was capped once for the under-20s on 23 March 2018, in a 1–0 friendly loss to the United States in Spain.[18]

Career statistics
As of 5 October 2020[19]
Club Season League Cup Europe Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Real Madrid Castilla 2016–17 80—80
2017–18 130—130
2018–19 180—180
Total 390—390
Real Madrid 2017–18 10000010
2018–19 10000010
Total 20000020
Rayo Vallecano 2020–21 0000—00
Career total 4100000410

Honours

France U17

Real Madrid

See also

References
  1. "Acta del Partido celebrado el 12 de mayo de 2019, en San Sebastián-Donostia" [Minutes of the Match held on 12 May 2019, in San Sebastián-Donostia] (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  2. "Luca – Real Madrid CF". Real Madrid CF.
  3. "Maldini, Zidane, Kluivert, Hagi, Weah – the sons of legends making their own way". BBC Sport. 27 July 2019.
  4. SPORT, RMC. "Bleus – Après Enzo, voilà Luca Zidane !".
  5. "Actualités Véronique Zidane".
  6. Kreo. "Interview: Zidane à cœur ouvert (2e partie) : "J'attends que l'Algérie passe au deuxième tour et même plus !"". lebuteur.com.
  7. "Zidane's four sons joined Real when he was at the club – MARCA English".
  8. "Real Madrid : Luca Zidane poursuit son ascension".
  9. "LaLiga – Real Madrid: Luca Zidane selected by his father – MARCA in English".
  10. "Villarreal vs. Real Madrid – 19 May 2018 – Soccerway". us.soccerway.com.
  11. "LaLiga – Villarreal 2–2 Real Madrid: Luca Zidane: When I play I'm Luca, not Zidane – MARCA in English".
  12. "Madrid beat Liverpool to complete hat-trick". uefa.com. 26 May 2018.
  13. "Luca Zidane jugará en el Racing la campaña 2019/20 cedido por el Real Madrid". realracingclub.es. 8 July 2019.
  14. "Official Announcement: Luca Zidane". realmadrid.com. 8 July 2019.
  15. "Luca Zidane se lesiona en el primer partido de la temporada" [Luca Zidane gets injured in the first game of the season]. Sport (in Spanish). 20 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  16. "Luca Zidane nuevo jugador del Rayo Vallecano". rayovallecano.es (in Spanish). 5 October 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  17. "Luca Zidane: I don't want to be compared to my father". FIFA.com. 8 September 2015.
  18. "U.S. U-20 MNT nets late-game winner to defeat France U-21 [sic] squad". Soccerwire. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  19. Luca Zidane at Soccerway
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