Rutendo Makore (born 30 September 1992) is a

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

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who plays as a

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for the Zimbabwe women's national team. She represented her country in their Olympic debut at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

. In the Olympic match versus Germany it was Makore who set up a goal that took their goalkeeper

Almuth Schult Almuth Schult (; born 9 February 1991) is a German footballer who plays as a goalkeeper the Germany national team and is currently a free agent. Club career At the age of five, Schult began her career at her local football club FC SG Gartow, be ...

by surprise. The ball was rebounded but Kudakwashe Basopo made it a goal leaving the score at 6–1 against Zimbabwe.Behringer, Germany cruise past Zimbabwe in women’s soccer opener
Nicholas Mendola, 3 August 2016, NBC sports, Retrieved 5 August 2016

International goals

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* 1992 births Living people Zimbabwean women's footballers Zimbabwean expatriate women's footballers Sporting de Huelva players Liga F players Zimbabwe women's international footballers Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Zimbabwe Zimbabwean expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Women's association football forwards {{Zimbabwe-women-footy-bio-stub