"Ashour will be out of action for ten days at least after sustaining a knee injury," chief of Ahli's medical staff Ehab Ali told FilGoal.com.

The 20-year-old midfielder hurt his knee in Egypt Olympic team's 4-1 victory over Belarus in the International Friendship Tournament's final on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Egypt's football supervisor Ahmed Hafez said Greece-based duo Amr Al-Halawani and Ahmed Magdi have arrived in Cairo to join the team's training camp ahead of Ivory Coast encounter.

Egypt will host the Elephants in the first-leg of the Beijing Games qualifiers' second-round on Wednesday.