Zinedine Sidane, young Mexican hopeful, signs his first professional contract

2024-01-13 14:08:05

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Zinedine Zidane has a worthy successor: Zinedine Sidane. Baptiste Autissier / Baptiste Autissier / Panoramic

LE SCAN SPORT – L’Equipe presents a portrait this Saturday of Zinedine Sidane, a young footballer who plays with the U18s of Chivas, Mexico, named by his father in homage to “Zizou”.

Not a hoax, but a tribute. A Mexican father, José Gildardo, named one of his sons Zinedine Sidane in homage to the French football legend. “Why with an S and not a Z? Because when registering it in the civil registry in Mexico, the person did not write it correctly…», told the father in September to So Foot explaining that he “lots of affection for France» and having been “marked forever» by the 2006 World Cup final against Italy.

Does the name make the talent? The team we learn this Saturday that Zinedine Sidane Hernandez Quezada, 17, has just signed his first professional contract with Chivas de Guadalajara, in Mexican D1. A very talented left winger, sometimes nicknamed “Zizou”, sometimes “El Mago” (the Magician), Sidane is regularly compared to the illustrious French number 10. “I have never been made fun of for that,” he confided to ESPN. If he admits to having admiration for the illustrious French number 10, he admits to having a weakness for… Neymar, whose style of play is close to his own.

For the record, Zinedine Sidane’s older brother is named Eder Jair, in homage to Eder and Jairzinho, Brazilian wingers who took part in the 1982 and 1970 World Cups. Did José Gildardo’s wife agree with these choices? ? “She likes football,” he explains. It was she who chose the cadet’s name, Jared Borgetti, a Mexican international who played at the turn of the 21st century.

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