Rio Mavuba
Mavuba playing for Lille in 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Rio Antonio Zoba Mavuba | ||
| Date of birth | 8 March 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Born at sea | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Lille | ||
| Number | 24 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2003 | Bordeaux | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2007 | Bordeaux | 127 | (1) |
| 2007–2008 | Villarreal | 5 | (0) |
| 2008 | → Lille (loan) | 17 | (1) |
| 2008– | Lille | 275 | (4) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2004–2006 | France U21 | 20 | (1) |
| 2004– | France | 13 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 December 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 June 2014 |
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Rio Antonio Zoba Mavuba (born 8 March 1984) is a French footballer who plays for Lille OSC as a midfielder.
He played most of his professional career with Bordeaux and Lille, winning the 2011 national championship with the latter.
A French international since 2004, Mavuba represented the country at the 2014 World Cup.
Mavuba's father was Mafuila Mavuba, a footballer who appeared at the 1974 FIFA World Cup with Zaire, while his mother was an Angolan national. He was born on board a boat in international waters during the period of the Angolan Civil War, and later stated that his birth certificate did not have a nationality on it, reading only "born at sea"; he received French nationality in September 2004.
Mavuba's mother died when he was two, and his father 12 years later. He launched himself into football to help deal with his grief.
Mavuba played youth football with FC Girondins de Bordeaux. He made his Ligue 1 debut on 10 January in a 2–1 away win against Montpellier HSC and, under recently appointed manager Michel Pavon, became an immediate first-choice.
From the 2004–05 season until the end of his spell, Mavuba never appeared in less than 32 league matches.
On 3 July 2007, Mavuba signed a five-year deal with Villarreal CF worth €7 million, as the Spanish side had lost Alessio Tacchinardi who returned to Juventus F.C. following a loan. He found it hard to break into the first team, only totalling 219 minutes in La Liga, and in late January 2008 joined Lille OSC on loan until the end of the campaign.
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