RABAT, Jan 11 - Algeria's hopes of solving a goalkeeping crisis with a big name flopped at the Africa Cup of Nations and they will need to look for alternatives before the World Cup kicks off later this year.

Luca Zidane, the son of World Cup winner Zinedine Zidane, was plucked from the obscurity of Spanish second tier to help Algeria with a dearth of goalkeeping talent but it was a gamble that backfired on Saturday.