Facts about Véronique Zidane, Zinedine Zidane’s wife

The famous former footballer Zinedine Zidane is married to Véronique Zidane. We are going to talk about facts about Véronique Zidane, but first let us learn more about Zidane himself.

Zinedine Zidane, who was born on June 23, 1972, and goes by the nickname Zizou, is a Frenchman from Marseille.

The former attacking midfielder for the French national team is not currently in charge of any team. Up until 2021, he served as

's manager.

Zizou was one of the most successful managers. He was one of the top strikers ever when he was a player. 

His dexterity, impressive ball control, passing, technique, and vision were praised. He began coaching at Real Madrid Castilla after he stopped playing.

Followings are some lesser-known facts about Véronique Zidane:

Véronique Zidane born as Véronique Frenández Lentisco is a former dancer and model. Although she was born in France, she grew up in Spain before going to France for continuing her studies.

Véronique Zidane’s Biography

Véronique Zidane was born on 10 November 1971, in Rodez, Aveyron, France meaning that

Véronique Zidane’s age

is 51.

She grew up in Spain with her parents and sister, Sandrine, until the age of 18. Although she majored in biology at Toulouse, she decided to pursue her passion for dancing and went to the Rosella Hightower Dance School in CannesVéronique learned to dance at an early age and always had a passion for it.

Veronique Zidane’s parents

are Antonio Antonio Fernández Lentisco and Ana Ramírez Martínez who are originally from a community in Southern Spain called Andalusia.

In 1988, she dropped out of college in Toulouse to make her dream of being a dancer come true. She left her family behind when she decided to stay at Foyer des Jeunes Travailleurs of Salon-de-Provence, which literally means housing for young workers.

FDJ offers different activities to support young workers and students. She met Zinedine while she was studying in Cannes. Zidane was 17 at the time and was trying to fit in AS Cannes as an attacking midfielder. They have been married for 28 years and have been together for more than 30 years.

The legendary former footballer and current head coach of Real Madrid, has played for AS Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus, and Real Madrid before his retirement in 2006. Another

fact about Véronique Zidane

is that she used to be a dancer and a model but now she is mostly involved in fashion designing and sales.

Véronique Zidane’s Love Story

She exchanged her wedding vows with her longtime boyfriend, Zidane. The two met one another for the very first time back in 1988 in Cannes. At that period of time, Zinedine was only seventeen years old and was playing for Cannes.

Véronique Zidane has not been so open about her life and has kept her life rather private, but the love she shares with her husband is not something that can be hidden. Zizou has even talked about the love he has for his wife freely.

On a day before Zidane’s 48

th

birthday, a biography on his personal life was published by the French sports journalist Fredrick Hermel. In the biography, he shares the extraordinary love that Zidane had revealed for his spouse.

According to the book, “[They] first crossed paths in 1989, in the cafeteria of the youth worker residence where the two lived. Véronique was 18 years old and taking dance classes at the Rosella Hightower school. Zinedine was 17 and preparing at the Cannes Training Centre.”

A fun fact about Véronique is what she revealed some years later. She explained that the pair were staying in very strictly gender-separated housing. Boys stayed at one side of the building and girls on the other side. They came across each other a few times, after a few months Zizou came forward and said “hello”

An interesting fact about Veronique is that it was actually her that broke the ice and started a conversation with him. Only then they started talking to each other. The young French footballer of the time fell in love immediately with his future wife.

He confessed to Hermel: “When I met her, I would have thrown myself from the top of a building for her to love me.” After a few months, Zizou got himself a small studio, and shortly after, she joined him.

Véronique doesn’t talk to the paparazzi that much but when she occasionally does, she reveals rather important information.

She explained that their love wasn’t one-sided at all: “It was a crush, like a fairy tale, but it was also and from the start an honest relationship, a normal relationship. I married him, he is and will be forever the man of my life.”

She later gave some advice on life and love: “Today, we are still together, we made our life together, our paths are complementary and that’s what is wonderful.

When you form a family, you build that, you try to do it for life and when it works, when it does, it’s beautiful. There is no filter, everything is said, everything is done. I owe him everything.”

After 5 years of dating, Zinedine now playing for Bordeaux asked Véronique to marry him. They tied the knot in 1994 at

Château du Haillan in Bordeaux. Since then the pair have been inseparable.

Although Véronique doesn’t live for the spotlight, after her marriage she followed Zizou everywhere; to all his games and events. In response to her kindness, during his management time, in 2013, Zinedine contributed to his wife’s hometown football team in Rodez.

The family would go on a family vacation to Rodez, besides visiting Veronique’s family, Zizou also makes appearances during matches in the local football club.

Zidane doesn’t like to talk about his wife too much because he wants to respect her privacy but in a documentary broadcast, Zidane could not help himself, with tears in his eyes, not to thank his wife for her support. He declared that his family is his pride: “Knowing that she is still my wife today, it's beautiful”.

Below you can find more

facts about Véronique Zidane

and her children with the famous French manager, Zinedine.

Véronique Zidane’s Children

Veronique Zidane’s children

include four grown-up boys. The couple has four sons together who are all involved in the football career. Enzo, Luca, Théo, and Elyaz. Veronique told the public in an interview that they both wanted to start a family soon and have kids, so that was exactly what they did.

Enzo Zidane

Enzo, the eldest son, was born on 24 March 1995. He was born in Bordeaux, France. Just like his father and other brothers he is passionate about football. He started his youth career at

from 1997 to 2000. He plays as a midfielder.

Enzo started his senior career at Real Madrid C and built his way up to Real Madrid. Currently, he plays for

. He even has made 3 appearances for the Spanish and French national team. In 2006 when his dad retired, Enzo attained Spanish Citizenship.

Recently on 22 August 2020, Enzo revealed on his official Instagram account,

, that he has proposed to his girlfriend Karen Goncalves and has asked her to be his wife. He wrote in Spanish for his love “Para Siempre. Ti amo K”. which means in English: “Forever. I love you K.” He even put a red heart and an engagement ring next to the caption. To which Karen responded: “Para Toda la Vida.” Which means “For all life E”.

After only a few hours the post got more than 43,000 likes and a great number of congratulatory comments. Even his younger brother Luca left a couple of red hearts.

The lucky lady, Karen Goncalves, is a Venezuelan activist who has been exiled in Spain since she was 19. She seems really interested in being a part of the big family of Zidane. She even went on a vacation to Pisa, Italy with her fiancé and his parents.

Enzo talked about how hard it is to be Zidane’s wife. The 27-year-old footballer is at the early stages of his professional career, he is trying to find his path without being judged or praised because of his father’s reputation.

He told the Spanish daily: “People compare you, criticize you, want more from you, say that you are here because that you are someone’s son…others will criticize you for other things, but I try not to think that,”

He explained that the pressure is not something new for him and has had it since he was younger: “it will always be so, it’s not about to change. But I try to take a step back and concentrate on being the best Enzo I can be.”

He had a difficult season but he is optimistic: “it was a year where I learned a lot. I left my home, Real Madrid, I met five coaches and so much vision of football. I grew a lot on a personal level even if it was difficult because I hoped to play more.”

Luca Zidane

In 1998, the couple got pregnant again. They named their second son Luca. Luca was born on 13 May 1998 in Marseille, France. Following his birth, the family moved to Madrid in 2001.

Luca is a professional footballer who is currently playing for

as a goalkeeper. He started his club career at the age of six in 2004 in the Real Madrid youth academy. While he built his way up to play in Real Madrid, his father did the same and became his son’s manager.

Luca made his debut in their last league game of the 2017-18 season. The game was against Villarreal CF and it ended with a 2-2 tie. He stayed in Real  Madrid until recently, when he was loaned to Racing Santander and then he moved to play for Rayo Vallecano.

He has also played for the French National Team several times. He was called up to the first-team of Real Madrid training while he was on the international break in 2019.

When he was 22 years old he held a €1.50 million market value. Luca has an Instagram account under the name

, where he shares photos of his beautiful family and himself.

Theo Zidane

On 18 May 2002, the Zidane family grew even bigger with the birth of their third son Theo. He was born in Marseille, France just like his brother, Luca. At the moment, Theo wears shirt number 21 in Real Madrid U19. He joined the youth academy at a young age but he is still moving up.

His contract with the club expires on 30 June 2021. He plays as a midfielder. As for his national team career, he has made his debut for France U17 on 25 September 2018 and scored 2 goals. He posts many pictures of himself on training sessions on his Instagram account

Elyaz Zidane

After 3 years of Theo’s birth, Veronique gave birth to another boy named Elyaz. He was born only one day after Christmas on 26 December 2005. He is barely15 years old but he already plays as a defender in the youth club of Real Madrid.

Her diet and fitness regime recently attracted the attention of paparazzi after it was revealed during an event in Mumbai, India, that she is vegetarian. Interestingly, she hated football in her youth, even though she later developed a passion for the sport.

Veronique Zidane and Fame

As said before Veronique holds her personal life private enough. On some rare occasions where she talks in interviews, she shared that sometimes she gets tired of being spotted outside.

That’s why she doesn’t have social media accounts and her pictures only appear on family members’ pages. She explained how exhausting her husband’s success can get sometimes: “If I had known that he would become such a star, I do not know if I would have married him”.

A fascinating

fact about Veronique Zidane

is that unlike other football WAGs, she loves the quiet life and the shadows. She explained she doesn’t like to get famous or to get lost in it. She even was very honest about his sons’ football career: “Our sons must pass their baccalaureate! School first, football after”.

Veronique was going to be a dancer and a dance teacher but she gave her dream up for his love, Zizou. Zizou was only a talented young player at that time, who knew he could be this successful?

While he was establishing himself as an elite playmaker, Veronique supported him and stood by his side. She even said that she hated football growing up, but eventually fell in love with it as she attended all his husband’s games.

The love between the two is unconditional. Even Hermel wrote in Zidane’s biography: “Without Veronique, Zidane would never have been Zidane. Anyone who has frequently spoken to the star minimally is aware of this.”

However, in the same biography, Veronique had revealed how she could have left her husband if he became lost in his success and became arrogant: “If he had taken the big head, I would have left him a long time ago. Oh no! Especially not that. I’m telling you, as long as I’m here, no risk of it happening to her. Not the kind of house.”

Veronique’s personal life

Speaking of

Veronique’s personal life

, she is obviously in very good shape since she was a dancer and it was her passion. However, it was revealed recently that she has another passion in yoga. Zizou posted a picture of his wife doing an impressive yoga posture of headstand in their backyard in Madrid. Apparently, Veronique isn’t the only one loving yoga.

Zinedine himself is interested in the action. He once posted a picture of himself and his sister-in-law, Sandrine Chevignon, in front of a yoga studio. With a caption saying: “mon petit coin zen préféré en famille.” Meaning: “my favorite little zen corner with the family”.

After posting this, and a little digging around, it turned out that Sandrine is actually a yoga instructor and a partner in the same yoga holistic health spa from the photo called La Grange Yoga Naturopathie Osteopathie.

The studio is located near Veronique’s hometown Rodez, France. There’s even a quote by Zinedine on their website with his signature below it: “I participated in the creation of La Grange: an authentic space dedicated to well-being on the lands of Aveyron which is dear to me. I place all my trust in this team, whose professionalism and commitment I know.”

Back to Veronique, she has also a very nutritious and healthy diet.

Veronique’s body measurement

information is not available. When Zidane was in Mumbai to promote the Kanakia Group’s residential project in Bandra Kurla Complex, their hosts wanted to take the family to their Juhu home over for a meal. But moving from the hotel to Johu was not very easy and pleasant.

So, the dinner was served at the hotel. From all the French dishes and Indian dishes to choose from, which Zidane sampled all, Veronique only ate from the vegetarian dishes.

Zidane’s family

Zinedine’s older brother Farid was a successful businessman. He was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 54. He passed away on 12 July 2019 after a long battle with cancer. Zinedine paid a moving and warm tribute to his late brother on 14 July 2019: “Forever in my heart”

One day before the ceremony, on 13 July, the former French footballer left the American tour of Real Madrid for personal reasons. A few hours later the terrible news was announced on Real Madrid’s official website: “All members of the Real Madrid first-team squad held a minute’s silence ahead of training in Montreal following the passing of Fariz Zidane, the brother of our coach, Zinedine Zidane.” Then Luca also left the club to be with his family.

The legendary French couch posted a series of photos from his brother and himself with the following sentences: “My hearted big brother Farid. You always showed me the way. You were just generous, brave. You loved others so much and others loved you so much! I'm so proud of you. Forever in my heart.”

In the comment section, a huge number of condolence messages were published by fans and family. Farid Zidane was the second child of the family, he was younger than Madjid but older than Noureddine, Lila, and Zinedine. 

Farid was a father of three. His son Driss is also involved in a football career. He is a midfielder at Athlético Marseille. Driss was born on 5 March 1995 in Marseilles, France. He joined Athletico on 1 January 2018.

Veronique Zidane net worth

Despite being a model

Veronique Zidane social media

is not active. Instead, her sons post family snaps on different occasions as well as Zidane himself.

The final fact about Veronique Zidane is her net worth and salary.

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According to reports, the Zidane family net worth is an estimated €62million.

Veronique Zidane net worth

is boosted through her husband's playing career at top clubs including Cannes, Bordeaux, Juventus, and Real Madrid.

The beautiful, Veronique Zidane has gathered a huge amount of media attention as the wife of the famous football player and coach, Zinedine Zidane. Apart from her husband's name and fame, she is a model and former dancer who has involved in various brands and endorsements.

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