“Competent and timely decision.” Gomelsky supported Raikovich’s resignation from the post of head coach of CSKA

Management CSKA made a competent and timely decision in rejecting Emil Rajkovic from the position of head coach of the team, the four-time USSR basketball champion told Vladimir Gomelsky .

CSKA announced Rajkovic’s resignation on Monday. The head coach of the team until the end of the current season will be Andreas Pistiolis, who worked as an assistant to the former head coach of the military team Dimitris Itoudis.

— A very competent and, perhaps, timely decision. I support. In most of the matches of the second stage of the VTB United League, CSKA suffered defeats and won only three meetings. At the end of the regular season, the team took third place. The work of a coach can only be evaluated by the results of his team. Rajkovic has not had success with this CSKA team. A completely normal decision. It was being prepared.

— What can the new coach do?

“The question is: what is Pistiolis’ current form? He is a good coach, he is well prepared methodologically. But it’s more a question of psychology than methodology. CSKA’s tactics and strategy for the playoff matches are easy to determine. But the psychology, the contact with the team players, their motivation…

I understand that the coach will have his own motivation, but he still has to manage the team. The question is whether the team will trust the coach. There are many factors here that cannot be predicted. “I don’t know what he can achieve, but I hope he gets the victory,” Gomelsky told .

CSKA took third place in the regular championship of the VTB United League, and the “red and blue” will play with Krasnoyarsk “Yenisei” in the quarterfinals.

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