{"id":273830,"date":"2025-10-03T06:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T06:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:08:10","slug":"zinedine-zidanes-son-luca-called-up-by-algeria-for-world-cup-qualifiers-against-somalia-and-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/273830\/","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.<\/b><\/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":3,"featured_media":273831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-273830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115308744333142929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}