Francis Chandida

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Francis Chandida
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-05-28) 28 May 1979 (age 43)
Place of birth Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) [[Midfielder (association football}|Midfielder]]
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2001-2002 Shabanie Mine F.C.
2003-2004 Dynamos F.C.
2005-2006 Buymore FC
International career
2001-2006 Zimbabwe MNT 19 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Francis Chandida (born 28 May 1979) is a former Zimbabwean football midfielder.

He has been capped for the Zimbabwean national team. He scored the winning goal in the 2005 COSAFA Cup, and was in the Zimbabwean squad for the 2006 African Cup of Nations. He was an influential figure in the Zimbabwe national team in the mid-2000s

Chandida played for Shababie Mine from 2000 to 2002 and he won the Bp league Cup and played in the zifa unity cup final with the asbestos miners. In 2002 he joined Dynamos for a record ZW$4.5 million,he played for 2 seasons before he joined another Harare based outfit Buymore. Despite playing all the qualifying games for Tunisia Afcon 2004 tournament, Chandida missed out on the final selection for the tournament. In 2006 he was part of the final squad for the afcon tournament.

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