Pavel Cebanu (born 28 March 1955) is a former
Moldova
Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...
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football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
player. He spent his entire career, from 1973 to 1985, at the Moldovan side
FC Nistru Chişinău. He was captain for many years and played 341 games scoring 45 goals.
He was the president of the
Football Association of Moldova, for 22-year from 1 February 1997 to 2019 and was succeeded by
Leonid Oleinicenco.
In November 2003, to celebrate
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
's Jubilee, he was selected as the
Golden Player of Moldova by the Football Association of Moldova as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years.
References
External links
UEFA.com - Moldova's Golden PlayerProfile - Moldova.sports.md
1955 births
Living people
People from Odesa Oblast
Moldovan men's footballers
Soviet men's footballers
FC Zimbru Chișinău managers
UEFA Golden Players
Recipients of the Order of Honour (Moldova)
Men's association football forwards
Soviet football managers
Moldovan football managers
FC Zimbru Chișinău players
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