Sanguine The entire business is owned by a couple of very powerful families who run the "country" as one big mafia organization. One of the companies they own is Sheriff, Transnistria's only supermarket chain, and also a convenient front for trafficking.
This is were Sheriff Tiraspol comes from. The team was founded by the owners of the company (both former KGB agents, of course) who have bankrolled it as a giant money-laundering operation. They've built a huge football complex in the middle of a quiet Moldovan cow pasture.
It's literally the only modern building in the entire country. The only building of any size without Soviet mold growing on it. And it's goddamn fancy as hell. This is the building where Sheriff play opponents from Hincesti, Otaci and Orhei, whose home grounds are actual pastures.
Never let anyone tell you not to dream big, kids. There is nothing, NOTHING, that positivity, hard work, a secret nation-building KGB plot and an international gun-trafficking ring can't accomplish.
Recommend reading "Playing the Moldovans at Tennis" for some more insight on them and the rest of the teams there
