Emil Rajkovich left the post of head coach of CSKA basketball

The Moscow basketball club CSKA announced on its website the resignation of Emil Raikovich from the post of head coach of the team.

According to the results of the regular championship of the VTB United League, CSKA took third place; in the quarter finals the “red and blue” will play with Krasnoyarsk “Yenisey”.

— The club decided to terminate the contract with the team’s head coach Rajkovic. Together with him, assistants Marko Velickovic and Sasho Todorovski are leaving the team headquarters, CSKA said in a statement.

— I would like to express my gratitude to CSKA and its president Andrei Vatutin for the constant constructive cooperation and trust, thanks to which I led one of the most successful teams in the history of European basketball. Over these two years we had many victories and a large number of pleasant moments that will remain in my memory.

I would like to thank the staff, the players and, no less important, the CSKA fans, who always supported us in every match. “I sincerely hope that the change of coach will spur the team, which, with the return of Casper Ware, will achieve its goal and win the title,” said Rajkovic.

Raikovich took charge of CSKA in the summer of 2022. Under the leadership of the North Macedonian specialist, the team became the bronze medalist of the VTB United League in the 2022/23 season; in the same season, 45-year-old Rajkovic was recognized as the best coach of the championship.

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