Jose Martinez the newly appointed head coach of the senior National football team the Scorpions, is in town. He arrived into the country on Tuesday night from Madrid.

Martinez who is contracted by a Spanish telecommunications firm Global Voice replaced German Antoine Hey who refused to report for duties in a financial wrangle with the sports Ministry. He will try to rescue the Scorpions bid to qualify for the African Nations Cup in Ghana in January next year when they travel to Conakry on June 3rd.

The Scorpions who before their last match against the Cyli Nationale of Guinea where second in their group, fell one step back when they lost 2-0 at home to the visiting Guineans. They now sit third in group 8 with 3 points from three matches with only a superior goal advantage over bottom placed Cape Verde. Only the winner of the group will qualify automatically for Ghana and the others will have to struggle to pick up one of the three available spots for the second best in each group out of the 12 groups of four teams.

Algeria are leading group 8 with 7 points followed by Guinea with 4 points.