Club News

It would be determined tomorrow if CSKA would play for the first or for the 3rd place at the tournament in Udine. It depends on the result of the game Snaidero – Udine. CSKA lost by 9 points to Italians and won by 29 against Cibona.

Today CSKA played the first game at the tournament in Udine. The team came to the city just an hour before the game start. There are some changes in the roster. Artur Urazmanov and Maxim Sheleketo went back to Moscow. Most likely both would continue their careers at CSK VVS. Before departure the CSKA head coach Ettore Messina talked to both and gave his recommendations.

The agreement between PBC CSKA, forward Yaroslav Korolev and NBA club LA Clippers was signed yesterday. According to it CSKA breaks a contract with Korolev and Clippers receives all the rights on the player. The transfer on CSKA side would be completed as soon as the club would send the letter of clearance to RBF.

CSKA fans favourite Theodoros Papaloukas is the winner of Eurobasket-2005! Today his National team defeated Germans in the final game – 78-62. And our player got an honorary place in the All-Tournament Team...

CSKA won the Moncalieri tournament after beating Benetton 80-75 in the extra time. It was the 3rd match of these two teams in two past weeks and before the game the series tied 1-1.

CSKA Greek playmaker Theodoros Papaloukas became the finalist of Eurobasket-2005. His team achieved the right to play in the main game of the tournament in the dramatic duel with France...

CSKA and Greek forward Demos Dikoudis reached an agreement on breaking a contract. PBC CSKA is greatful to the player for the season he spent in our club and wishes luck in his further career.

At the game day there was a press conference held in the commune of the Moncalieri city. The major and the representatives of all the teams were present. CSKA is the only foreign team this year. This is the reason why the club was represented at the meeting not only by the coach Molin but also by Matjaz Smodis.

Third defeat in row wouldn’t allow our National team to receive an automatic berth for Japan, where the next World Championship will be held...

Result of the first match in a play-off round of the Eurobasket-2005 left no chances for Russians to return home with medals on their necks...

CSKA spend the game vs. Livorno without David Andersen who got a cold and even did not attend the match. It came very hard to the Army club to play without center. It is just worth to mention the starting five of the team – Vyaltsev, Kurbanov, Bashminov, Panov and Langdon.

The whole CSKA starting line – Andersen, Langdon, Vyaltsev, Kurbanov, Panov – was already sitting on the bench towards the end of the first quarter, only Vyaltsev was the exception...

In the last game of the group stage of the European Championship Russians took on slightly pinking, but still very dangerous Nowitzki’s German Machine.

Despite the fact CSKA played the second game versus Benetton in a harder atmosphere than the first one, the Army club won the match – 91-76.

In the second game of the European Championship Russian National team finally show its great potential. After not the most convincing victory over Ukrainians, there were few people who expected such confident performance from Russians in the game against silver medalists of the last Olympic Games.

The opening game of the European Championship against Ukraine was expected to be rather easy for Russian National team. But it turned out to be much more difficult than almost everybody thought.

European championship in Serbia is ready to take off. PBC CSKA wishes luck to the Russian National team. We hope the team would be able to add some new information to the Roll of Honor and as the minimum to show some good performance.

CSKA lost the first friendly game of the season. The same as in the game against Khimki-2 the players of the main line-up played mostly in the first two quarters of the game. The younger players had a chance to show their best for all the last quarter long.

CSKA young team won the first game of Russian Cup Preliminary Round at Lipetsk. The final gap of the game versus Vityaz from Ryazan was 11 points.

Today CSKA had a meeting with Khimki-2 that in some ways looked like a game, in some ways like a practice. On the one hand there were no official stats of the game, no final score – only by quarters...

Today two leaders of Russian National team in the 90s Sergey Panov and Vasily Karasev said good-bye to it. The video clip with the best actions and movements of both players were shown in front of the crowd gathered at CSKA Universal Sports Hall. After that the former captain of the National team Karasev gave Andrei Kirilenko the captain band. There is no such accessory in basketball; it was just a symbol.

Russian National team head coach Sergey Babkov announced that Vladimir Dyachok is no longer with the team. The reason is competition on the small forward position. ‘He needs to start practicing with CSKA as soon as possible in order to get self-reliance’ – said the mentor.

There would be a press conference on Vladimir Kondrashin and Alexander Belov Cup today in St.Petersburg. The tournament is going to be held October, 8th and 9th in Yubileini sports hall. So CSKA CEO Sergey Kuschenko decided to say some words to the supporters and journalists of the city by our web-site.

Today from 6 to 9 p.m. (CET+2) our visitors may experience problems with our web-site. We are moving to the new Hewlett Packard hard platform (shown on the picture). We apologize for any inconveniences.