Salah out of Kenya & the Comoros matches with the national team

Egypt's medical team, led by doctor Mohamed Abul Ela, said on Wednesday that Mohamed Salah is not ready to play for Kenya and the Comoros.

The Football Association said, in a statement through the official account on the social networking site "Twitter", that Salah underwent extensive tests confirmed the continuation of the injury suffered recently.

Egyptian coach Hossam Al-Badri held a meeting with the head of the national team Mohamed Barakat and the doctor of the Pharaohs in the presence of Salah, who confirmed his great desire to participate in the two games but can not because of injury.

The statement did not say how long Salah needed to recover from the injury.

Salah joined the Egyptian camp on Monday evening.

Egypt are preparing to meet Kenya and the Comoros on November 14 and 18 in the first two qualifiers for the 2021 African Cup of Nations.

The Qualifiers draw put Egypt in Group G alongside Togo, Kenya and Comoros and the top two teams of the group will secure qualification to the final tournament in Cameroon.

There are 22 players in the camp, including Mohamed El Shennawy (Al Ahly), Mohamed Awad (Zamalek), Mohamed Bassam (Talaea Al Gaish), Ahmed Fathy (Al Ahly), Mohamed Hany (Al Ahly), Abdallah Gomaa (Zamalek), Mahmoud Waheed (Al Ahly)), Mahmoud Alaa (Zamalek), Rami Rabia (Al Ahly) Baher Al Mohammadi (Ismaili) Tarek Hamed (Zamalek), Amr Al Suleia (Al Ahly) Hamdy Fathy (Al Ahly) Mohamed Magdy Afsha (Al Ahly), Hussein Al Shahat (Al Ahly) Ahmed El Sayed Zizo (Zamalek) Hossam Hassan (Smouha), Marwan Hamdy (Wadi Degla), Ahmed Gomaa (Egyptian), Ayman Ashraf "Al Ahly" and Karim Tarek "Talaea Al Gaish", and Mahmoud Abdel Moneim Kahraba (Disportivo Avis).