Luca Zidane
.jpg) Luca after the 2018 Champions League final | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Luca Zinedine Zidane Fernández | ||
| Date of birth | 13 May 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Marseille, France | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Real Madrid | ||
| Number | 30 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2004–2018 | Real Madrid | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016– | Real Madrid B | 21 | (0) |
| 2018– | Real Madrid | 1 | (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) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 May 2018 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 19 May 2018 | |||
Luca Zinedine Zidane Fernández (born 13 May 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Spanish club Real Madrid.
Early life
Luca was born in Marseille, and is the son of the FIFA World Cup-winning French footballer Zinedine Zidane and his wife Veronique Fernández. 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.[1] Luca is of Spanish descent through his mother,[2] and of Algerian descent through his father.[3]
Club career
Luca joined the Real Madrid youth academy at the age of six in 2004 and plays as a goalkeeper.[4] He worked his way up from the academy, eventually joining Castilla, the reserve team.[5]
Luca's father Zidane came to manage Real Madrid, and became Luca's manager early in his career.[6] 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.[7][8] 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.[9]
International career
Born in France and 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.[10]
Career statistics
- As of 14 August 2018[11]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Real Madrid Castilla | 2016–17 | 8 | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | |||
| 2017–18 | 13 | 0 | — | 13 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 21 | 0 | — | 21 | 0 | ||||
| Real Madrid | 2017–18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018–19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Career total | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |
Honours
Real Madrid
France U17
References
- ↑ SPORT, RMC. "Bleus - Après Enzo, voilà Luca Zidane !".
- ↑ "Actualités Véronique Zidane".
- ↑ Kreo. "Interview: Zidane à cœur ouvert (2e partie) : «J'attends que l'Algérie passe au deuxième tour et même plus !»". lebuteur.com.
- ↑ "Zidane's four sons joined Real when he was at the club - MARCA English".
- ↑ "Real Madrid : Luca Zidane poursuit son ascension".
- ↑ "LaLiga - Real Madrid: Luca Zidane selected by his father - MARCA in English".
- ↑ "Villarreal vs. Real Madrid - 19 May 2018 - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com.
- ↑ "LaLiga - Villarreal 2–2 Real Madrid: Luca Zidane: When I play I'm Luca, not Zidane - MARCA in English".
- ↑ "Madrid beat Liverpool to complete hat-trick". uefa.com. 26 May 2018.
- ↑ "Luca Zidane: I don't want to be compared to my father". FIFA.com. 8 September 2015.
- ↑ Luca Zidane at Soccerway
External links
- Real Madrid profile
- France profile at FFF
- Luca Zidane at Soccerway
- Luca Zidane at BDFutbol
- Luca Zidane – UEFA competition record