He started in the juvenile hockey team HC Lugano, where his father has been assistant coach and suddenly coach of the first team.[1]
After the sportive debut in the Swiss 1. Liga with the Hockey Club Ceresio, in 2009 he returned to Italy, where he enrolled the SG Cortina for five seasons, winning the 2011-2012 Italian Cup.[2] In February 2012, he had an accident that obliged him to a period of medical rehabilitation.[3]
^"Hockey Cortina: infortunio extrasportivo alla gamba per Luca Zanatta". Feb 14, 2012. Archived from the original on September 23, 2018. Retrieved Sep 20, 2018. «He was at dinner in a mountain shelter, together with other team companions. A the end of the dinner, going out with a sledge, he had that accident. Perhaps, those are things that happen.