Problem to autoload kernel module

Hi guys, I am facing a problem actually. Basically to use my gamepad, I need after every boot to load manually the xpad module like this:

sudo modprobe xpad

So I created a file to automate the process in /etc/modules-load.d, but the module is not loaded at all, why ?

The file I created is /etc/modules-load.d/xpad.conf, with this content:

xpad