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Zidane's four sons joined Real when he was at the club

One of the arguments of FIFA's report with regard to punishing Real Madrid for the irregular transfer of minors, are four players surnamed Zidane Fernandez. The children of current Real coach Zinedine joined Los Blancos together and used their mother's surname to protect them. Yet they are included in the case and treated by the world football governing body as irregular inscriptions - even though their father was still a football player or employee at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu.

The eldest son of Zidane was born in Bordeaux in 1995 and joined Real in 2004. Since then he has gone through all of the youth teams until this season when he joined the first team tour of Canada and the United States.

The goalkeeper of the family also joined in 2004 and at six years of age was placed in the 'prebenjamin' category. His progress in recent years has been very fast and is already on course to play for Castilla.

Theo, who has shone this season with a goal in the Cadete B side, was enrolled in the Real academy in the summer of 2010, coinciding with the return of his father to Los Blancos to be assistant coach. He was eight at the time and has remained in the youth set up at the club.

The youngest son has been at Real for just three years, joining in 2013 .... the season in which his father with Carlo Ancelotti. As is the case with his older brothers, this coincided with a time when his father was an employee of the club.

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