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Mavuba is remembered for taking direct free kicks and penalty kick executions. He is credited with being the first
Congolese footballer ever to score from a corner kick: a curved shot that went in straight in the back of the net without deflections.
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Following his football career, Mavuba moved to Angola. He fled the country with his family at the onset of the civil war in 1984 and lived as a refugee in France until his death in
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187:Rio Mavuba
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