Percy Tau has been ruled out of the Fifa Club World Cup and is in danger of missing Bafana Bafana’s friendly international against France in March, his Egyptian club Al Ahly have confirmed.
Tau was injured in the 3-0 Egyptian League Cup loss to Smouha on Thursday, where he was the star name in an otherwise second-string Ahly side with the majority of their players at the Africa Cup of Nations finals in Cameroon.
“Osama Moustafa, the youth team’s doctor, stated that Al Ahly forward Percy Tau suffered an anterior muscle injury,” the club said in a statement after the Smouha defeat. “Moustafa added that Tau will be sidelined for four weeks, and he will perform a rehabilitation programme to fully recover from his injury.”
If Egypt advance past Morocco in their Cup of Nations quarterfinal on Sunday, he will be without his leading players as they prepare to play Mexican side Monterrey in their Club World Cup second round clash on Saturday. Fifa inexplicably scheduled the Club World Cup to overlap with the Cup of Nations, something that would have been unheard of were it the European or South American championships. It can be viewed as a massive show of disrespect for a major continental finals and has created all sorts of problems for Ahly in particular.
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