CSKA in Siena

08.01.2004
Tomorrow Moscow army team moved to Italy by the charter flight. 12 players are in the CSKA squad: injured Viktor Khryapa stayed in Moscow. In 3 hours and a half our team was in Pisa.

The delegation of the Italian club has meet CSKA in the airport. They were well knows to Mirsad Turkcan who played in Montepaschi last season. He showed his team way to the club bus.

There is no big airport in Siena that’s why we came to Pisa. Then we went to Siena by bus. In 2 hours CSKA came to the Jolly hotel. Siena is a small city with many a labyrinth of many streets, ancient houses and small beautiful shops. There a lot of ancient building of an age of 700 years there.

In the evening after the snack and video army team moved to Palasport Nens Sana which is situated not far from the hotel. During their practice the night came to the city. Twilight came down to Siena, shops closed and there were no peoples on the streets. After 2-hour practice CSKA has return to the hotel for the dinner. Our players usually eat spaghetti every day but this one there were real Italian ravioli with the spinach inside. After the dinner players went to have a rest before the tomorrow game. In the morning they will have 1-hour practice and in the evening they will return to arena for the game against Montepaschi.
Photos
Dusan Ivkovic (photo cskabasket.com)
At the airport of Pisa (photo cskabasket.com)
At the airport of Pisa (photo cskabasket.com)
Alexander Bashminov (photo cskabasket.com)
Evening Siena (photo cskabasket.com)