Rio Mavuba
| Rio Mavuba | ||
 Mavuba (2010)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Rio Antonio Zoda Mavuba | |
| birthday | March 8, 1984 | |
| place of birth | High seas | |
| size | 172 cm | |
| position | Defensive Midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1991-2003 | Girondins Bordeaux | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2003-2007 | Girondins Bordeaux | 127 (1) |
| 2007-2008 | Villarreal CF | 5 (0) |
| 2008-2017 | Lille OSC | 299 (5) |
| 2017– | Sparta Prague | 9 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2006 | France U-21 | 4 (1) |
| 2004-2014 | France | 13 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: February 12, 2018 |
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Rio Antonio Zoda Mavuba (born March 8, 1984 on the high seas ) is a French football player . He is currently under contract with Sparta Prague .
Career
His father, Mafuila Mavuba , was a Congolese soccer player who also took part in the 1974 World Cup; his mother was an Angolan . Both parents died before Rio's fourteenth birthday. Rio Mavuba was born on a boat in international waters far off the coast of Angola during the Angolan civil war .
Rio Mavuba, who is compared to Jean Tigana when he was active, played for Girondins Bordeaux from the age of seven ; In 2003 he signed a professional contract. For the 2007/08 season Mavuba moved to Spanish club Villarreal for 8 million euros .
On January 22, 2008 Mavuba was loaned to the French first division club OSC Lille until summer . He was able to convince there and then moved permanently to the club from northern France for 7 million euros. Rio Mavuba signed a contract until 2012, which he extended on February 21, 2011 to summer 2015. On December 8, 2013 Mavuba completed his 200th league game for OSC Lille.
He made his debut in the French national team on August 18, 2004 against the team from Bosnia and Herzegovina ; the game ended 1-1. Up to and including 2007, five more A-internationals followed before he was taken into account again by the new national coach Didier Deschamps from mid-2012 . The defensive midfielder was also the captain of the French U-21 national team.
successes
swell
- ^ Mavuba: born without a nation
- ↑ Lille extended with Mavuba on Transfermarkt.de
Web links
- Mavuba's data sheet on the website of the French Football Association
- Official homepage ( Memento from February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Rio Mavuba in the database of weltfussball.de
1 Niță | 2 Kaya | 3 M. Kadlec | 4 Čivić | 7 Néstor | 8 Hovorka | 9 kanga | 11 Ben Haim | 16 Sáček | 17 Frýdek | 19 Štetina | 21 Lafata | 22 Plavšić | 24 Mavuba | 25 Kulhánek | 26 Nhamoinesu | 28 Zahustel | 30 Julyš | 31 Vorel | 32 Mustedanagič | 35 Bičík | 88 Vătăjelu
Head coach: Andrea Stramaccioni
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mavuba, Rio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mavuba, Rio Antonio Zoda (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1984 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | on the high seas |