Club News

 
April 2003
30.04.2003
CSKA in the Finals

The Moscow Army team moved on to the finals of the Russian Championship, defeating Khimki 90-66 in the fourth game of their semifinal series. CSKA’s opponent in the final will be decided on May 3 in Perm, where the local team, Ural-Great, will take on UNIX Kazan...

30.04.2003
CSKA Reserves Traveling to Barcelona

«Your victory in Perm is very important for the club and for me personally,» announced PBC CSKA general director Sergei Kushchenko to begin the meeting with the CSKA Reserves, who a few days earlier had won the DYUBL Championship.

29.04.2003
Khimki Continues to Compete

CSKA took the lead in the semifinal series of the Russian Championship in a tense game against Khimki from the Moscow suburbs. Tomorrow the teams will play again in the Dinamo Sports Palace...

28.04.2003
Yevgeny Pashutin: The Most Important Thing is to Learn the Right Lessons

We asked team captain Yevgeny Pashutin to comment on the second game of the semifinal series with Khimki...

27.04.2003
PBC CSKA Press Conference Postponed

According to a decision by the coaching staff of PBC CSKA, the press conference, which was set to take place on April 28, will be postponed to a later date. The new date of the press conference is pending.

27.04.2003
CSKA Juniors: DYUBL Champions

Having defeated the Ural-Great Juniors by a score of 87-56, the CSKA youth team became the second champion of the Children's-Youth Basketball League. Way to go, boys!

26.04.2003
Khimki Takes Revenge

CSKA's starting five was the same as in the first game of the semifinal series. Dusan Ivkovic started Holden, Chatzivrettas, Monya, Songaila and Alexander. The opening minutes seemed like deja vu to the fans...

26.04.2003
CSKA Youth Team in DYUBL Final

Having defeated Lokomotiv (Mineralnye Vody) by a score of 77-67, the Army team has reached the finals of the Children's-Youth Basketball League, in which they will face the Ural-Great Juniors.

25.04.2003
The first game of the semifinal

The first game of the semifinal series between the Superleague champions CSKA and Khimki v from the Moscow suburbs v which finished fourth in the regular season, proved once again that the playoffs are a different story. It was a battle from the opening minutes of the game...

24.04.2003
Alexei Savrasenko: The most important thing is just to play our game

The semifinal series of the Russian Championship will begin tomorrow between CSKA and Khimki. After yesterday's practices, CSKA center Alexei Savrasenko offered his opinion about the upcoming games...

24.04.2003
CSKA’s 80th Birthday Celebration

The celebration of the 20th anniversary of CKSA took place at the CSKA Ice Sports Palace. Kind words and congratulations were offered by Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, Goskomsport Minister Vycheslav Fetisov, and renowned "armeitsy": Alexander Gomelsky, Vladislav Tretyak, Irina Rodnina and Russian entertainment stars...

24.04.2003
DYUBL Final: First Place in the Group

Having defeated the Ural-Great Juniors in the final game of group play by a score of 86-67, the Army team captured first place in the group. The day after tomorrow, our youth team will take on Lokomotiv from Mineralnye Vody in the semifinal game.

24.04.2003
Vladimir Putin Wishes CSKA a Happy 80th Birthday

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the CSKA front office, athletes, colleagues, veterans and fans on the 80th anniversary of the club's founding.

23.04.2003
DYUBL Final: A Second Win

In the second game of the Youth Basketball League finals, the Army team downed the Avtodor Saratov team 98-63. Tomorrow the Army team will face the Ural-Great Juniors in a battle for first place in the group.

22.04.2003
DYUBL Final Begins With a Victory

In the first game of the Youth Basketball League finals taking place in Perm, the Army team defeated Yenisey from Krasnoyarsk 118-55.

19.04.2003
We'll Face Khimki in the Semifinals

Having won the third game of the quarterfinal series versus Lokomotiv from Mineranye Vody with a final score of 107-49, CSKA moved into the semifinals of the Russian Championship, where they will face Khimki from the Moscow suburbs.

18.04.2003
Off to Rostov

After today’s afternoon practice, the entire CSKA roster left on the team bus to the airport, where they boarded a charter flight for their trip to Rostov for the third quarterfinal game in the Russian Championship playoffs against Lokomotiv from Mineranye Body. Forwards Sergei Panov and Darius Songaila talked about the upcoming game...

18.04.2003
We play in Barcelona vs Barcelona

The final day of the Euroleague Top 16 has determined the forth participant of the Euroleague Final Four. As expected the opponent of CSKA will be Spanish Barcelona, which has bat at home the Slovenian Olimpia with 79-75.

17.04.2003
TOP 16 Behind, Barcelona Ahead

The final TOP 16 game was in fact meaningless for both teams. The hosts had no way of improving their position in the standings, and the Army team had already secured a spot in the Final Four. But both teams had their own motivation. Cibona hardly wanted to dt dirt kicked in their face in front of their own fans. In their nine previous Euroleague home games, the Croatian club had only lost to the Italian club Benetton. And before the trip to Zagreb, CSKA made clear that they did not want to make the final game a formality...

15.04.2003
CSKA in Zagreb

Today at 10:30, the team bus should have left the USH CSKA for Domodedovo airport. But there was a delay of several minutes. Once all of the players had taken their seats in the bus, Sergei Kushchenko brought a bouquet of flowers and a stuffed animal in order to personally wish Sergei Monya a happy 20th birthday. That was the only hold-up. The charter flight from Domodedovo took off exactly on time...

15.04.2003
New Euroleague Ticketing Program

Euroleague is making ticket sales a major priority. In an unprecedented move, 4 Euroleague teams: CSKA (Russia), Alba (Germany), ASVEL (France) and Unicaja (Spain) have joined the new Euroleague Ticketing Program. These are the 4 Euroleague teams that are committed to selling out all of their home games. Details on a site Euroleague.net

13.04.2003
CSKA – Action in Action

The second quarterfinal game of the Russian Championship between the Army team and Lokomotiv from Mineralnye Vody wasn’t a sellout. However, those who didn’t show up to the game only have themselves to blame that they missed the basketball show put on by CSKA.

12.04.2003
First Playoff Game Over

On the first true spring day, the USH CSKA stands held only 500 fans, who came to support the Army team in the first game of the quarterfinal playoffs of the Russian Championship against Lokomotiv from Mineralnye Vody. The difference in class of the two squads didn’t make for much intrigue in the game, and for that reason, not many fans showed up.

10.04.2003
CSKA is going to Barcelona!

After Unicaja of Spain defeated Cibona in Malaga, the Army team earned the berth to the Euroleague Final Four, which will take place May 9 to May 11 in Barcelona. CSKA vs Efes Pilsen: 66-54

08.04.2003
Dusan Ivkovic: I expect a big basketball

Dusan Ivkovic and Victor Alexander expressed their opinion the day before the decisive match of CSKA in Euroleague Top 16 vs Efes Pilsen (Turkey)...

05.04.2003
CSKA wins Russian Superleague A

CSKA vs UNICS: 94-85