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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.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated October 28, 2026, 12:26 PM UTC
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  • It has become almost ritualistic for them to speak after a game.

“She was like: ‘Oh, you were so bad!’ She was laughing but that helped me.

She knows that she can tell me anything and everything, I’m good, I’m not good.

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