On August 26, Moldova National Football League Champion Tiraspol Sheriff Team (also known as Sherif Football Club) defeated Dinamo Zagreb with a total score of 3-0. Become the first Moldovan team to qualify for the Champions League group stage.
However, although this team belongs to Moldova in name, it comes from a "non-existent country"- Transnistria Coastal Republic of Moldavia (Referred to as De Zuo).
This "country" is Ezra (Russian, Ukrainian) in the majority and has never been ruled by Moldova since 1990.
The Tiraspol Sheriff Team was established in 1997 and sponsored by the German-Left Monopoly Enterprise Sheriff Group.
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is a German-Left team, it participates in the Moldova League and is the uncompromising overlord of this league. It has won 19 league championships. It has won 6 consecutive championships since the 2015-16 season and has won 10 times. Moldova Cup, 7 times Moldova Super Cup and 2 times CIS Cup, the record is second only to the old strong teams Moscow Sparta and Dynamo Kyiv.
This team has 28 members, and only 6 of them are Moldovan nationals. The striker Henrique Luvannor is also naturalized from Brazil.
Goalkeeper Dumitru Celeadnic and midfielder Maxim Cojocaru are Moldovan born in Chisinau ; goalkeeper Serghei Pașcenco and defender Alexandr Belousov are German-born Germans born in Tiraspol.But they have all been selected to the Moldova national team; there is also a midfielder, Serafim Cojocari, a German leftist born in Rezina.
In addition, it is very international, from Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina , Serbia, North Macedonia, , Eastern Slovenia (span2span), Greece, etc. European countries; there are Brazil, Colombia, Peru and other South American countries; there are also Mali, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea and other African player exporting countries, and even Malawi, Luxembourg and Trinidad and Tobago players from niche countries.
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