The Sierra Leone Football Association has named Jose Antonio Goldberger Gomes Nogueira as the new head coach of the Leone Stars.

The Sierra Leone FA Secretary General, Alimu Bah, told BBC Sport Online that all arrangements with Nogueira have now been completed and that he would arrive in Freetown this week to take up duty.

Bah added that Nogueira has been given a six month contract, which stand to be renewable base on his performance.

The Brazilian is to receive US $5,000 as his monthly salary and a bonus of US $10,000 if he wins a match.

Nogueira replaces local coach Sam Obi Metzger, steps down and will now serve as Nogueira's assistant.

Nogueira' main task is to qualify the Leone Stars for the 2004 African Nations Cup Finals in Tunisia, and his first official match in charge will be a qualifier against Morocco in Freetown on 29 March.

Nogueira, born in Lima on November 26, 1965, has never before coached a national team.

He last served as coach in 2001 as boss of Brazilian club Sao Paulo.

He has also coached teams in Ecuador and Japan.

The Brazilian is the first foreign coach to take over Leone Stars for three years.

The last was Yugoslav-born Dusan Draskovic.

Other expatriate coaches are Zarpanelion of France, the late Ali Badara Keita Kolev of Guinea, and Egypt's Mustapha El-Ghali, who guided Sierra Leone to their first ever African Cup of Nations finals in Tunisia 1994.