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'Kids looked up to him' — Zidane Iqbal's trailblazing path to the brink of Manchester United's first team squad
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukGet the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Despite making up 7 per cent of Britain's population, just 0.25 per cent of professional footballers are from a British Asian background. Those numbers are rather startling and so the Football Association recently launched South Asian Heritage Month, which involved promoting positive stories from Asian participants across the game. One such player that helped the FA was Manchester United youngster Zidane Iqbal. Born in Manchester to a Pakistani father and an Iraqi mother, Iqbal joined United's academy aged just nine years old — the earliest legally permitted — and he's since spent just under a decade developing his
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