{"id":176658,"date":"2025-10-03T04:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176658\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:29:09","slug":"zinedine-zidanes-son-luca-called-up-by-algeria-for-world-cup-qualifiers-against-somalia-and-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176658\/","title":{"rendered":"Zinedine Zidane’s son Luca called up by Algeria for World Cup qualifiers against Somalia and Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luca Zidane, the son of France legend Zinedine, has been called up by Algeria for their forthcoming 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Somalia and Uganda.<\/p>\n

Born in the southern French city of Aix-en-Provence, the goalkeeper appeared for France at various youth levels but recently switched his international allegiance<\/a> to Algeria.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old is one of three goalkeepers named in Algeria coach Vladimir Petkovic’s 26-man squad for the matches on 9 and 14 October. <\/p>\n

Zidane, who is the second of four brothers, all of whom came through the Real Madrid academy, currently plays for Spanish second-tier side Granada.<\/p>\n

He played two matches for Madrid and has La Liga experience at Rayo Vallecano, but dropped a level in 2022 to play for Eibar before heading to Andalusian club Granada in 2024.<\/p>\n

Zidane’s paternal grandparents came from the Kabylie region of Algeria.<\/p>\n

Zinedine Zidane scored twice for France in their 1998 World Cup final victory over Brazil, but was famously sent off for a headbutt in the 2006 final, which was won by Italy in a penalty shootout.<\/p>\n

Algeria are currently top of Group G of African qualifying and are one win away from booking a place at next year’s World Cup in North and Central America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luca Zidane, the son of France legend Zinedine, has been called up by Algeria for their forthcoming 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-176658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}