Experienced coach Daniel Malesela is set to be appointed as the head coach of Baroka FC.
According to the iDiski Times insiders, Malesela was at the offices of the club on Monday, fuelling talks that he was taking over at Baroka.
Baroka are without a coach after they parted with Stanford Nkoane, who was sacked on Sunday following a 1-1 draw against Casric Stars at Solomon Mahlangu on Friday.
The 58-year-old Malesela has been without a club after leaving Marumo Gallants in January this year last season.
Malesela is well experienced in the PSL second tier, having coached United FC who he led to the semi-final of the Nedbank Cup, Cape Town All Stars and TS Galaxy.
The latter led them to the Ke Yona Cup triumph in the 2018/19 season, beating Kaizer Chiefs in the final at the Moses Mabhida Stadium.
That is the record in the PSL where a team from the second tier won what is the version of the FA Cup in South Africa.
He was the runners-up of the same competition in the 2021/22 season with Gallants, losing to Mamelodi Sundowns at Royal Bafokeng Stadium.
Malesela has also coached Royal AM, having been named as the co-coach at the beginning of last season but left them under the cloud in September last year, saying the co-coaching thing did not work for him because the identity of his style of play was going to be lost.
Malesela is taking over at Bakgaga who are winless in the opening five matches of the Motsepe Foundation Championship which led to the departure of Nkoane. The club wants to get back to the top flight and has prioritised this season as the last time they participate in the second tier.
The Limpopo side was relegated to the Motsepe Foundation Championship at the end of the 2021/22 season, becoming the second top flight side to go down without winning a league match away after Ajax Cape Town (now Cape Town Spurs) did so in the 2017/18 season.
