ENGLAND-BORN Stuart Baxter, the last coach to win a trophy at famed South African club Kaizer Chiefs, was rehired on Wednesday by the club, who are facing a sixth season without silverware.
The only chance the Soweto outfit have of lifting a trophy is to win the CAF Champions League, but they are rank outsiders ahead of a semi-final against Moroccan outfit Wydad Casablanca this month.
Although local coach Gavin Hunt exceeded expectations by reaching the last four of the marquee African club competition, he was fired last month after a dismal domestic campaign.
Chiefs finished only eighth in the 16-club national league and made a humiliating first-round exit from the FA Cup by losing at home to a second-division club.
Widely travelled Baxter was in charge of Chiefs from 2012 to 2015 and won the league twice, the FA Cup and another knockout competition before joining Turkish club Genclerbirligi.
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