SOCCER PLAYER

Mavuba Mafuila

1949 - 1996

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Ricky Mavuba Mafuila Ku Mbundu (15 December 1949 – 30 November 1996) was a football player from Zaire, nicknamed The Black Sorcerer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mavuba Mafuila has received more than 25,754 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mavuba Mafuila is the 4,144th most popular soccer player (down from 4,059th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Democratic Republic of the Congo (down from 30th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Congolese Soccer Player.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Mavuba Mafuila ranks 4,144 out of 21,273Before him are Angelos Basinas, José Antonio Roca, Moreno Torricelli, Haris Seferović, Aleksei Paramonov, and Rúben Dias. After him are Kaoru Kakinami, Gyula Rákosi, José Carlos, Arnór Guðjohnsen, Pieter Huistra, and German Apukhtin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Mavuba Mafuila ranks 546Before him are Christian Dalger, Leslie Valiant, Bohuslav Šťastný, Paruyr Hayrikyan, James Wani Igga, and Armin Shimerman. After him are Hildegard Falck, Jack McGee, John Farnham, Michael Hogan, David A. Johnston, and Roy Andersson. Among people deceased in 1996, Mavuba Mafuila ranks 290Before him are Franz Pfnür, Hamlet Mkhitaryan, Ivan Jazbinšek, Marcel Capelle, Georg Johansson, and Anna Chandy. After him are Jan Hertl, Laura La Plante, Yun Chi-young, Robert Lamoot, Les Baxter, and Alifa Rifaat.

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In Democratic Republic of the Congo

Among people born in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mavuba Mafuila ranks 33 out of 107Before him are Dikembe Mutombo (1966), Cyrille Adoula (1921), Sony Lab'ou Tansi (1947), José Bosingwa (1982), Kazadi Mwamba (1947), and Mwanza Mukombo (1945). After him are Kakoko Etepé (1950), Tubilandu Ndimbi (1948), Gérard Mulumba Kalemba (1937), Laurent Nkunda (1967), Maître Gims (1986), and Kibonge Mafu (1945).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Democratic Republic of the Congo

Among soccer players born in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mavuba Mafuila ranks 9Before him are Kembo Uba Kembo (1947), Steve Mandanda (1985), Mwepu Ilunga (1949), José Bosingwa (1982), Kazadi Mwamba (1947), and Mwanza Mukombo (1945). After him are Kakoko Etepé (1950), Tubilandu Ndimbi (1948), Kibonge Mafu (1945), Blaise Nkufo (1975), Mbo Mpenza (1976), and Jean Kalala N'Tumba (1949).