Career
Hussein qualified as a 29-year-old for the Egyptian squad in the men"s featherweight class (68 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by defeating Tunisia"s Mohamed Omrani for the top spot and securing a berth from the African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in his native Cairo. Hussein lost his opening match 8–1 to Chinese Taipei"s Huang Chih-hsiung, but slipped abruptly into the repechage for a chance to add another Olympic bronze medal for Egypt in the sport, following Huang"s progress towards the final. In the repechage, Hussein redeemed from his ill-fated Olympic prelim feat to seal an adamant 8–4 victory over Austria"s two-time Olympian Tuncay Çalışkan, before ending his Olympic run by plunging to a 6–8 decision against South of Korea"s Song Myeong-seob, relegating Hussein to fifth position.