West Ham’s Viviane Asseyi: ‘When I was four I said I wanted to be like Zidane’

French forward on how the 1998 World Cup inspired her football dream, her Gabonese background and finding a new family in east London On Saturday, once West Ham’s Viviane Asseyi was home from the match, she picked up her phone and called her mum. It has become almost ritualistic for them to speak after a game. On th…
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