Since signing for Amakhosi halfway through the 2004 – 2005 season, Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Emile Baron has been besought with injury and the goalkeeper currently recovering from a shoulder operation is looking for a change in fortune.

Baron who inherited former Amakhosi goalkeeper Brian Balyoi’s number 16 jersey upon his arrival at Chiefs just over two years ago, has opted to jump out of the number sixteen jersey and gone for a new number.

When he gets back to full fitness Emile will start using the number 30 jersey whenever he plays for Chiefs. Emile is confident that a new number means a new start as he says “some people might think I am crazy or superstitious - the truth is I need a change of luck”.

When he first arrived at the club Baron had to wait almost twenty months before making his first appearance for Chiefs, he made it as a substitute replacing the injured Rowen Fernandez in a PSL game in Bloemfontein in September 2005.

Emile who is currently in the ‘rehabilitation stage’ of recovering from a long term shoulder injury which he had to under go surgery for in May this year feels his luck will change soon “according to the team physiotherapist my recovery is going well and I am progressing faster than I was expected to. That is a good sign for me and to me it looks like lucky number 30 for me”.

Although he is currently injured - Emile will travel with the rest of the team when they journey to Polokwane for the Limpopo Soccer tournament and will also be part of the travelling contingent when Chiefs travel around the country during the upcoming Vodacom Challenge.