“I will be the head coach.

This is easy to do, because we have a pre-season, ”RIA Novosti quoted Vatutin as saying.

He also said that the new coach will be announced no later than next season.

The Greek specialist has led the Moscow team since 2014.

Together with CSKA, he won the VTB United League six times and became the Euroleague champion twice.

Earlier, the head coach of CSKA basketball Dimitris Itoudis announced that he was leaving the Moscow club.