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Luca Zidane, the 27-year-old goalkeeper and son of French football great Zinedine Zidane, has switched his sporting nationality from France to Algeria, the Algerian Football Federation said on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u2018FIFA officially granted… goalkeeper Luca Zinedine Zidane authorisation to represent the Algerian national team,\u2019 FAF said in a statement.<\/p>\n
FIFA\u2019s \u2018change of association platform\u2019 showed the decision was dated on Friday.<\/p>\n
Luca Zidane represented France at youth levels and currently plays for Granada in Spain\u2019s second division.<\/p>\n
Since he never made the step up to the French national team, he remained eligible to play for Algeria, the country of his paternal grandparents.<\/p>\n
The North Africans have qualified for the 2025 African Cup of Nations, set to begin on December 21 in Morocco.<\/p>\n
They are also leading their World Cup qualifying Group G with 19 points, needing either a win against Somalia or draw with Uganda next month to qualify for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n
Zidane also played for Real Madrid\u2019s reserve team after working his way up from its youth academy, which he joined in 2004.<\/p>\n
He debuted with the main team in their last league game in the 2017-2018 season and was the third-choice goalkeeper when Real won their 13th Champions League title in 2018.<\/p>\n
Although Zinedine Zidane was born in Marseille, his family was originally from a small village in Bejaia, some 250 kilometres east of Algiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Luca Zidane Luca Zidane, the 27-year-old goalkeeper and son of French football great…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[24953,24952,24950,24947,24949,24946,2000,299,36,24951,24948,24944,24945],"class_list":{"0":"post-439686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-bangla-online-news","9":"tag-bangladesh-latest-news","10":"tag-bangladesh-news","11":"tag-bangladesh-newspaper","12":"tag-bangladeshi-newspapers","13":"tag-daily-new-age","14":"tag-eu","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-france","17":"tag-latest-bangladesh-news","18":"tag-most-popular-outspoken-english-daily-newpaper-in-bangladesh","19":"tag-new-age","20":"tag-the-new-age"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115239361619117753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}