Valeriu Nicolaevici Ciupercă (born 12 June 1992) is a Moldovan-born Russian professional

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who plays as a

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for Dynamo Stavropol.

Career

He made his

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debut for

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on 13 May 2012 in a game against

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. On 2 July 2014, Ciupercă signed a three-year contract with Anzhi Makhachkala. On 27 May 2016, he scored the decisive goal for

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in their promotion play-offs second-leg 2-0 victory against

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, securing Tom's promotion to the

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. On 10 January 2018, Ciupercă signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with

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. He was released from his Rostov contract by mutual consent on 4 July 2018. On 13 July 2018, he signed a two-year contract with

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. On 2 March 2021,

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announced the signing of Ciupercă, with Ciupercă leaving Astana by mutual agreement on 30 December 2021. On 17 March 2022, Ciupercă signed for Kuban Krasnodar in the

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. He gave up Moldovan Citizenship and playing for their national team not to considered Legionnaire in Russian League.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ciuperca, Valeriu 1992 births Footballers from Tiraspol Footballers from Transnistria Living people Moldovan men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Moldova men's under-21 international footballers Moldova men's international footballers FC Academia Chișinău players FC Krasnodar players FC Krasnodar-2 players FC Yenisey Krasnoyarsk players PFC Spartak Nalchik players FC Anzhi Makhachkala players FC Tom Tomsk players FC Baltika Kaliningrad players FC Rostov players FC Tambov players FC Astana players FC Kuban Krasnodar (2018) players FC Rubin Kazan players PFC Dynamo Stavropol players Moldovan Super Liga players Russian Premier League players Russian First League players Russian Second League players Kazakhstan Premier League players Moldovan expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Moldovan expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Kazakhstan Moldovan expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Russian men's footballers Naturalized citizens of Russia Naturalised association football players Moldova men's youth international footballers Moldovan emigrants to Russia Russian expatriate men's footballers Russian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan 21st-century Russian sportsmen