UCAM Murcia Katsikaris looking to relay that goes Lokomotiv Russian

UCAM Murcia seeking relief for his stool after it has been made ​​official the expected departure of their coach, the Greek national coach Fotis Katsikaris, who has signed for Russian Lokomotiv Kuban,

Goodbye Katsikaris was sung after the great performance that managed to get a template that ended the league Endesa in seventh place and qualified for the first time in his 18 years in the elite for the quarterfinals and for an international tournament, the Euro, which is the second European competition in importance after the Euroleague.

As technical manager of the group, the Hellenic pointed to a stronger club and, after rumors spread about his departure to Barcelona Lassa or Laboral Kutxa Baskonia has washed up in the Lokomotiv, an emerging team on the continent was in the final last four Euroleague and won the European Championship in 2013.

In Murcia, Katsikaris managed the club surpassing historic high achieved tenth position in the previous season with Diego Ocampo on the bench and also the balance of wins and losses.

After losing in the playoffs for the title against Real Madrid , the eventual champion, 2-1, the UCAM closed the year with 19 wins and 18 losses with Ocampo when the baggage was tied at 17.

The claim of the granas leaders is to find a coach who, in addition to continuing the growth of the team, can take root in Murcia, something that has not occurred with Katsikaris nor Ocampo.

Since the last rise of the team to the top flight in 2011, five technicians have passed by the bench and only Oscar Quintana has managed to start two straight seasons.

The Spaniard landed in Murcia with the 2011-2012 season underway to replace January 2012 at Luis Guil, who had won promotion.

He remained in office until half of the financial year 2013-2014, when he was relieved by Marcelo Nicola in January 2014, so it was two years as head coach UCAM, a period that also comply Katsikaris, whose relay will become in the nineteenth Murcia team coach in the CBA and the twenty-seventh of its history.