{{Short description|Zimbabwean footballer (born 1995)}} <!-- {{Use Zimbabwean English}} --> {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Mavis Chirandu | image = | image_size = | fullname = <!-- if different from name --> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|01|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Harare, Zimbabwe | height = 157cm<ref>{{cite news|url=http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/02/81/29/12/oftwomenplayerlist_neutral.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160725125159/http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/02/81/29/12/oftwomenplayerlist_neutral.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 25, 2016|title=Official Squad Lists for Rio 2016|publisher=FIFA|date=25 July 2016}}</ref> | position = Midfielder | currentclub = Weerams FC | clubnumber = | youthyears1= | youthclubs1= | years1 = | clubs1 = Weerams FC | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = | clubs2 = | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = | clubs3 = | caps3 = | goals3 = | nationalyears1 = 2013– | nationalteam1 = Zimbabwe | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = | pcupdate = 12:52, 7 August 2016 (UTC) | ntupdate = 12:52, 7 August 2016 (UTC) }}

'''Mavis Chirandu''' (born 15 January 1995) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays for Weerams F.C. and the Zimbabwe women's national football team.

==Biography and career== As a newborn, Chirandu was abandoned by her mother in some roadside bushes. She was brought up in an SOS Children's Villages orphanage in Bindura.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Muchinjo|first1=Enock|title=Rio 2016: Zimbabwe women's arduous journey to Brazil|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/rio-2016-zimbabwe-women-arduous-journey-brazil-160803113324570.html|accessdate=7 August 2016|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=4 August 2016}}</ref> She played for the senior Zimbabwe team for the first time in 2013, against Uruguay. She acquired the nickname "Madam Chair" after Zimbabwe's women's football chairman Mavis Gumbo, and scored her first international goal in a 6–1 win over Lesotho in November 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mhara|first1=Henry|title='Madam Chair' scores first Mighty Warriors goal|url=http://www.southerneye.co.zw/2013/11/07/madam-chair-scores-first-mighty-warriors-goal/|accessdate=7 August 2016|publisher=The Southern Eye (Zimbabwe)|date=7 November 2013}}</ref>

At 21 years old, left-sided midfielder Chirandu was included in the national squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dube|first1=Ngqwele|title=Dream come true for baby-dumped Chirandu|url=http://www.sundaynews.co.zw/dream-come-true-for-baby-dumped-chirandu/|accessdate=7 August 2016|publisher=The Sunday News (Zimbabwe)|date=17 July 2016}}</ref> She scored Zimbabwe's late consolation goal in their 3–1 group stage defeat by Canada at Arena Corinthians, São Paulo.<ref>{{cite news|title=Zimbabwe duo savouring Olympic adventure|url=https://www.fifa.com/womensolympic/news/y=2016/m=8/news=zimbabwe-duo-relishing-rio-adventure-2820232.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808195815/http://www.fifa.com/womensolympic/news/y=2016/m=8/news=zimbabwe-duo-relishing-rio-adventure-2820232.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 8, 2016|accessdate=7 August 2016|publisher=FIFA|date=7 August 2016}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{FIFA player|395664}}

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