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

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

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