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Full name
  
Tendai Mzungu

Position(s)
  
Utility

Weight
  
81 kg

Height/Weight
  
182cm / 84kg

Height
  
1.83 m


Original team(s)
  
Trinity Aquinas

Nationality
  
Australian

Name
  
Tendai Mzungu

Career start
  
2006

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Date of birth
  
(1986-02-28) 28 February 1986 (age 29)

Role
  
Australian Rules Footballer

Education
  
Kent Street Senior High School

Similar People
  
Hayden Ballantyne, Clancee Pearce, Matt de Boer, Matthew Taberner, Nick Suban

Profiles


Place of birth
  
Melbourne, Victoria

Who is... Tendai Mzungu?


Tendai Mzungu (born 28 February 1986) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Fremantle Football Club. Mzungu represented the Perth Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL) before being recruited to Fremantle at the end of the 2010 season, and made his debut for the club the following season.

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Career

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Born in Melbourne to a Zimbabwean father and an Australian mother, Mzungu moved to Perth, Western Australia, at the age of nine. He attended Kent Street Senior High School, and played amateur football for the Trinity Aquinas Football Club. Falling into the Perth Football Club's recruitment zone in the WAFL, Mzungu made his senior debut for the club in 2006. He played 72 games over 5 years, winning the Butcher Medal Perth's best and fairest award in 2010, and polling 20 votes in the 2010 Sandover Medal.

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The Fremantle Football Club obtained Mzungu in the trading period before the 2010 AFL Draft, trading their 39th selection to the new Gold Coast club, in return for Mzungu and the 44th selection, after he was pre-listed by the Gold Coast as part of the new club's entry concessions. Fremantle had originally intended to rookie list him, but decided to obtain him via a trade after his good form in the 2010 WAFL season.

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Mzungu performed well for Fremantle in the 2011 NAB Cup pre-season games and was tipped to replace the injured Roger Hayden in Fremantle's backline. However, in Fremantle's final pre-season game he damaged his knee medial ligament He returned to football 10 weeks later, to be selected directly to the AFL, rather than for Perth in the WAFL. His debut for Fremantle was in the Round 9 match at AAMI Stadium against Port Adelaide, which Fremantle won by 52 points. He was selected as the substitute player and only played the final quarter, replacing Hayden Ballantyne who suffered from a corked thigh (quadriceps contusion).

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Tendai Mzungu played for Fremantle in the 2013 AFL Grand Final against Hawthorn, Fremantle's first ever Grand Final in their history. In the second quarter, Mzungu scored Fremantle's first goal of the game.

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He was delisted at the conclusion of the 2016 season, however, he was drafted by Greater Western Sydney in the 2017 rookie draft.

Statistics

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Statistics are correct to the end of the 2016 season

References

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