Saso Filipovski is on CSKA coaching staff

Slovenian Saso Filipovski will be one of the assistants of our team’s head coach next season.

Filipovski started his coaching career in age 22 after the injury and post-graduate studies in the University of Ljubljana. He worked in Olimpija coaching staff under Zmago Sagadin. He was Ljubljana club head coach from 2003 till 2005 winning two Slovenian Championships and qualifying for the Euroleague Top 16. He was PGE Turow Zgorzelec head coach in 2006-2009, playing in Polish league finals twice, winning Coach of the Year trophy twice and qualifying for the ULEB Cup Final Eight in 2008. Saso was Lokomotiv-Kuban head coach in part of 2009-10 season.


Natalia Furaeva, PBC CSKA Vice President:

“It is a prerogative of the head coach to choose his assistants, and we supported Dusko Vujosevic who expressed the desire to work together with Dmitry Shakulin and Saso Filipovski. Filipovski is a young specialist who already showed himself on the European level and understands the nuances of the Russian championship. We’d like to express our appreciation to Ivan Jeremic for a season of productive work and we wish him all the successes in his future career.”

Saso Filipovski, CSKA assistant coach:

“It is a great honor for me to be invited. I am happy to get the chance to become a part of CSKA family and I hope to be greeted warmly by the club and the fans. CSKA is a big institution, the winning machinery, and I will do my best to help it to stay on the highest level. I am also happy that Dusko Vujosevic expressed the desire to work with me. He is not only the successful and popular European coach but he is an expert in producing the players of high class with many of them playing in the best Euroleague and NBA clubs.”