No replacement done after , replace(u'\xa0', u' ', regex=True) in Pandas

Question

I am trying to replace \xa0 with null in Pandas. But No luck. How to get it right ?

Input: {'Team': 'ABE', 'country': 'USA', 'region': '\xa0Texas'}

Code : df1['area'] = df1['area'].replace(u'\xa0', u' ', regex=True)

Output:{'Team': 'ABE', 'country': 'USA', 'region': '\xa0Texas'}

Expected_Output:{'Team': 'ABE', 'country': 'USA', 'region': 'Texas'}