Luca’s secrets on the difficulties of bearing the name Zidane. The second son of legend Zinédine Zidane confided in the Spanish media Report on comparisons with his father since the beginning of his career. The current goalkeeper of Eibar, in the Spanish second division, sees them rather with a negative eye.
“It’s not positive”
“Some people think it’s a positive thing, but it’s not. I would like the world of football to see me as Luca, to judge the matches I play, to look no further and compare me. There are people who talk about me without knowing me. It hurts. They are often full of prejudices, they don’t know who I really am. It’s hard to hear things about me from people who have seen me play only one or two games and who don’t know who I am and what player I am.
He especially deplores the overexposure caused by his name, “we would not talk as much about another player. These are things that can hurt you when you join a club. “It’s not easy to manage. On the one hand, I am very proud to be his son and what he has accomplished. But it’s true that when some people come to talk to me about my career… They talk to me about my father”, concludes the 24-year-old goalkeeper, even if by his own admission the media pressure is less at Eibar.