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Overview
- Granada, which disclosed the diagnosis Monday night, said Luca Zidane sustained a concussion and fractures to his jaw and chin after a violent aerial collision in a Segunda División match at UD Almería.
- The club said he will decide with its medical staff in the coming hours how to treat the injury, and multiple outlets report that surgery would likely rule him out of the World Cup from June 11 to July 19.
- His availability is critical for Algeria because coach Vladimir Petković is already without regular call-ups Anthony Mandrea of SM Caen and Melvin Mastil of Stade Nyonnais due to injury.
- The team has not given a timetable for Zidane’s return, leaving selection plans uncertain as Algeria weighs replacement options in goal.
- Zidane, recently naturalized for Algeria, has six caps and started at January’s Africa Cup of Nations, which made him the expected No. 1 after Raïs M’Bolhi’s retirement.