The Sheriff's Transnistria or football between nostalgic Stalin and criminals who protect the disabled

• ORFEO SUÁREZ

  @OrfeoSuarez

Updated on Monday, 22November2021-02: 13

• Share on Facebook

• Share on Twitter

• Send by email

Comment

• Classification This is how the groups march before the decisive days

Transnistria is claimed by Moldova and Moldova is claimed by Romania. A territory smaller than La Rioja, the peninsular autonomous community with less extension, concentrates tensions inherited from the Ottoman and Russian empires, and characters from the Soviet era and the Cold War, as if it were a frozen pizza with some of the worst ingredients in the history of Europe. Football is like ivy, it grows in the most adverse places and circumstances, as the German and British soldiers demonstrated on December 24, 1914, coming out of their trenches on the Flanders front to the sound of 'Stille Nacht' (Night of peace), greet each other, exchange tobacco and put a ball in play. In Transnistria it never stopped rolling, it was pushed by the Siberian deportees of

or for those who feel nostalgic for the 'Little Father', turned into the parents of the Sheriff, a state within the State with its own soccer team.

Real Madrid visits next week an area marked, according to the Spanish Diplomatic Information Office, by a "frozen conflict."

There is nothing to fear, however, because the Champions League suits everyone, whether they are Moldovans, Russians or Romanians.

It is a good manna for the place with the lowest per capita income in Europe (333 euros per month).

A cleaning woman earns less than 100.

Putin.

oligarchs and smuggling

The Republic of Transnistria, which occupies the strip between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border, is not recognized by any country, but has a currency, flag and the support of

. In front is

, son of a Soviet military man who was transferred to Bender, the second Transnistrian city after Tiraspol, where

team will play

. In Bender, a military stronghold where, today, a castle guarded by the military prevents access to foreigners, the 'Urcas' also arrived, members of a lodge of Siberian thieves who could not be deported to the gulags, because they constituted their own home, they already lived in the archipelago of horror discovered to the world by the Nobel Prize

. So they looked for a corner on the other side of the USSR.

Krasnoselski was brought to power by the Sheriff group, a state-owned company created by

and

, which controls

from gas stations to supermarkets.

Gushan worked for the KGB, like Putin.

The magazine 'Foreign Policy', from the editor of the 'Washington Post', links the origin of Gushan's fortune to smuggling and the permissiveness he enjoys to avoid taxes.

The opacity protects you.

The construction of the team obeys the dynamics of other oligarchs who benefited from the ruin of others in the abrupt transition between communism and capitalism, such as Shakhtar Donetsk or Zenit of Saint Petersburg: players far from the spotlight, many of them South American.

A Granada in the locker room

Florin Motroc

, on the other hand, knew better where he was.

He is Romanian.

It arrived in Tiraspol just two years after the new owners acquired the Sheriff, in the 1998/99 season.

Enough to take home some scary memories of running the club.

«It was the break of a game and we were losing.

Gushan walked into the locker room and threw a grenade on the floor.

We were all scared to death.

Three minutes later he came back and told us: 'If you don't draw, after the game the grenade will be real,' "he explained in an interview.

That year they won the Moldavian Cup.

That warlike landscape is remembered by

in Siberian Education, edited in Spain by Salamandra, beyond the express civil war that followed in the territory after the fall of the USSR. A member of the Urcas, Lilin explains the strict moral laws of the Siberian deportees, despite living off crime: respect for the elderly and women, and the protection of the disabled, because they are `` angels of God who do not know how to hate '' After the Russian military killed a deficient young man, the 'Urcas' razed the headquarters of those responsible. Likewise, a member of the lodge murdered in cold blood a couple of drug addicts who had left their baby to die, abandoned between rags. Marked by hierarchical tattoos, they had sacred customs, such as not entering the house with weapons and respecting grandparents. If a child lost them,an adoptive one was sought for him to advise him.

Prorumans and Prorussians

After passing through the Russian army, with which he fought in Chechnya, Linin, already settled in Italy, offered a fragment of this territory stopped in time, which was corroborated by the Sheriff as coach, the Spanish

. "It's like a communist movie," said the technician in this newspaper to

. Ferrando arrived at the team in a stage that was already more stable than the one Motroc had to experience, although not without tension. The civil war for control of the area was followed by the echo of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, on the border. Although the current geography takes neighboring Moldova out of the Balkans, there is no doubt that by history and culture it belongs to the powder keg of Europe where the First World War began and from which

said it produced more history than he was able to digest.

So it goes on.

Despite considering himself from another country, the Sheriff disputes the Moldavian league, from whose capital, Chisinau,

rules the country

, pro-European and pro-Roman, with a tendency opposite to the pro-Russians and Philosoviets who run the club and this strange republic considered by Moldova as an "autonomous territorial unit with special status."

A limbo.

The paths of football are not questioned, at least far from the Super League, and the one that led to the Champions League was a must.

The victory at the Bernabéu allowed them to show themselves to the world.

Even with football players of fortune, the Sheriff's team is his figurehead, his sickle and his hammer.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

• sports

• Champions League

• Real Madrid

Champions Madrid loses control, but wins the duel at Shakhtar

Champions League 2021 - 2022 Vinicius's obsolete contract: from the bet with 16 years to the bargain with 21

FootballThe details of the secret contract of the Superliga

See links of interest

• La Palma volcano

• Last News

• Translator

• What

• Holidays 2021

• 2022 business calendar

• Home THE WORLD TODAY

• Master investigative journalism

• Sassuolo - Cagliari

• Real Madrid - Coosur Real Betis

• Brest - Lens

• Getafe - Cádiz

• FC Cartagena - Burgos CF