# Mavis Chirandu

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**Mavis Chirandu** (born 15 January 1995) is a [Zimbabwean](/source/Zimbabwe) [footballer](/source/Association_football) who plays for Weerams F.C. and the [Zimbabwe women's national football team](/source/Zimbabwe_women's_national_football_team).

## Biography and career

As a [newborn](/source/Infant), Chirandu was abandoned by her mother in some roadside bushes. She was brought up in an [SOS Children's Villages](/source/SOS_Children's_Villages) [orphanage](/source/Orphanage) in [Bindura](/source/Bindura).[2] She played for the senior [Zimbabwe](/source/Zimbabwe_women's_national_football_team) team for the first time in 2013, against [Uruguay](/source/Uruguay_women's_national_football_team). 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](/source/Lesotho_women's_national_football_team) in November 2013.[3]

At 21 years old, left-sided midfielder Chirandu was included in the national squad for the [2016 Summer Olympics](/source/Football_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_tournament).[4] She scored Zimbabwe's late consolation goal in their [3–1 group stage defeat](/source/Football_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Women's_tournament_%E2%80%93_Group_F#INDIA_vs_Zimbabwe) by [Canada](/source/Canada_women's_national_soccer_team) at [Arena Corinthians](/source/Arena_Corinthians), [São Paulo](/source/S%C3%A3o_Paulo).[5]

## References

1. ["Official Squad Lists for Rio 2016"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160725125159/http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/02/81/29/12/oftwomenplayerlist_neutral.pdf). [FIFA](/source/FIFA). 25 July 2016. Archived from [the original](http://resources.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/02/81/29/12/oftwomenplayerlist_neutral.pdf) on July 25, 2016.

1. Muchinjo, Enock (4 August 2016). ["Rio 2016: Zimbabwe women's arduous journey to Brazil"](http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/rio-2016-zimbabwe-women-arduous-journey-brazil-160803113324570.html). [Al Jazeera](/source/Al_Jazeera_Media_Network). Retrieved 7 August 2016.

1. Mhara, Henry (7 November 2013). ["'Madam Chair' scores first Mighty Warriors goal"](http://www.southerneye.co.zw/2013/11/07/madam-chair-scores-first-mighty-warriors-goal/). The Southern Eye (Zimbabwe). Retrieved 7 August 2016.

1. Dube, Ngqwele (17 July 2016). ["Dream come true for baby-dumped Chirandu"](http://www.sundaynews.co.zw/dream-come-true-for-baby-dumped-chirandu/). The Sunday News (Zimbabwe). Retrieved 7 August 2016.

1. ["Zimbabwe duo savouring Olympic adventure"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160808195815/http://www.fifa.com/womensolympic/news/y=2016/m=8/news=zimbabwe-duo-relishing-rio-adventure-2820232.html). [FIFA](/source/FIFA). 7 August 2016. Archived from [the original](https://www.fifa.com/womensolympic/news/y=2016/m=8/news=zimbabwe-duo-relishing-rio-adventure-2820232.html) on August 8, 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.

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