How would Japanese pronounce *Zidane*, and what does it mean, if anything?

Zinedine Zidane--French football player for Real Madrid and France, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinedine_Zidane

Pronounced "Se-dayne" with a bent toward the sound produced when saying Zsa-Zsa

Also a character in a computer game.

Yeah, I'm looking for how the Japanese would pronounce the name Zidane as used in a video game produced in that country. My question did not ask for a French pronunciation, and I would also like to know what the name means...*in Japanese*.

Maybe I should just find wajo...

Beats me!!! If someone else doesn't come along with your answer...you could e-mail the company that makes the game?

Sigh. I would just be very, very disappointed if the character was named for a football player. He doesn't look the type.

Kayl, it seems that in the Japanese version of the game, the name is translated (and therefore I assume pronounced) as either "Jitan" or "Zitan." The site below does not indicate that the name has a special meaning.

And you're right: he doesn't look anything like a football player, more like a 12-year-old version of Mad Max:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zidane_Tribal

I looked this up in both Japanese-English and Japanese-Japanese dictionary and can't find a meaning... Mr Wajo doesn't know it either. He pulled one of his 'there's no hope for young people today' faces when I said it was an anime word.

'Zi' is now usually written 'ji'. I would read this word in Japanese as 'ji-dah-ne' The final 'ne' is like net without the t on the end.

I think I'll hang with the Jitan meaning. The character was the only known example of his kind, and most of us would agree that he was a pretty tough kid.

Zbeckabee, if you think my Zidane looks like a football player, you have the wrong picture. He's occassionally called a scrawny little monkey, and he wears fancy clothes. His attitude is something like Disney's Alladin, a smart-mouth thief with a good heart. Mad Max might work...but Zidane's friendly to a fault--Ooooo, I better just post and quit before I launch into an explanation of the whole game...

Well, it's sure a good thing they didn't name the character after Zidane's Marseille nickname 'Zizou' as that would be hard to pronounce. In his home town, no one says the long version.

No, a Zitan tree looks like football player...LOL!