Education
He attended Kent Street Senior High School, and played amateur football for the Trinity Aquinas Football Club.
He attended Kent Street Senior High School, and played amateur football for the Trinity Aquinas 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. Born in Melbourne to a Zimbabwean father and an Australian mother, Mzungu moved to Perth, Western Australia, at the age of nine. 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 Meda
The Fremantle Football Club obtained Mzungu in the trading period before the 2010 American Federation of Labor-Congress 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.
Mzungu performed well for Fremantle in the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters 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 American Federation of Labor-Congress, rather than for Perth in the WAFL. He was selected as the substitute player and only played the final quarter, replacing Hayden Ballantyne who suffered from a corked thigh (quadriceps contusion).
Mzungu played for Fremantle in the 2013 American Federation of Labor-Congress Grand Final against Hawthorn, Fremantle"s first ever Grand Final in their history.
In the second quarter, Tendai Mzungu scored Fremantle"s first goal of the game, which was also Fremantle"s first ever goal in a Grand Final.