Mavis Tchibota Dufounou (Hebrew: מאויס צ'יבוטה דפונו;[4] born 7 May 1996) is a Congolese footballer who plays as a winger for Israeli club Bnei Sakhnin on loan from the Russian Premier League club Akron Tolyatti, and the Congo national football team.
[2] Tchibota began his career in his native Congolese league playing for Diables Noirs, before officially joining the system of Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv in 2015.
[2][5] He spent the majority of his time out on loan with fellow Israeli Premier League side Hapoel Kfar Saba, joining in July 2015.
[6] He scored his opening senior goal in his second match, notching a seventy second-minute winner over Maccabi Haifa.
[2] Tchibota stayed for the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons, netting ten times in sixty-nine fixtures in all competitions for Hapoel Kfar Saba.
[13] He arrived in Israel at the age of fifteen with his mother, though further difficulties delayed their entry to the local youth club of Maccabi Tel Aviv.