Viviane Asseyi


Viviane Marie-Louise Blanche Asseyi is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women Super League club West Ham United and the France national team.
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Club career

Asseyi began her career with amateur club US Quevilly at age 6. Due to Quevilly not having a women's section, at age 16 she played on a mixed team composed mostly of male players. She later joined the women's section of football club FC Rouen, where the youngster scored 23 goals in 28 total appearances. She joined Montpellier midway through the 2009–10 season in January 2010 and played there until moving to Olympique de Marseille ahead of the 2016–17 season.
In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she transferred to [FC FC Bayern Munich (women)|Bayern Munich (women)|Bayern Munich] in Germany. Upon her arrival at the club, she was welcomed by fellow French citizen Benjamin Pavard, who played for the men's side. She had been in conversations with Bayern about a transfer for a year prior to the move.
In her Bundesliga debut on the first matchday against SC Sand, Asseyi scored, giving Bayern Munich the lead just two minutes in. In November she injured her ankle during a national team training course and had surgery a few days later.  At the beginning of March 2021, she returned to the pitch, immediately scored another goal in Freiburg and won the Bundesliga championship with Bayern Munich at the end of the season. A year later, one of her goals - scored with a bicycle kick against 1. FC Köln - was voted goal of the month for March 2022 by the spectators of the Sportschau by a large margin.
On 2 August 2022, Asseyi joined Super League club West Ham United. In the 2023–24 home game against Manchester United, she scored the equalizer making it 1–1 in the 85th minute.

International career

Youth

Viviane Asseyi played a total of 32 games for the French youth selection teams in the U-16, U-17, and U-19 age groups. In the second qualifying round for the 2012 U-19 European Championship, she scored the goal of the day against the Netherlands.

Senior

In June 2013, the coach of the senior national team, Bruno Bini, invited her for the first time to a course in preparation for the European Championship and then subsequently called Asseyi into the squad in place of Laëtitia Tonazzi who was retiring. On June 29, 2013, she made her debut for France at age 19 in a friendly against Norway. Bini's successor Philippe Bergeroo occasionally and mainly used her as a substitute. The new national coach Corinne Diacre even put Asseyi in the starting line-up in autumn 2017, with the striker scoring her first goal. Viviane Asseyi was also named in France's 23-player squad for the 2019 World Cup on home soil.
She was nominated for the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, played in two of her team's five games. Her team was eliminated in the quarter-finals after penalties against Australia.

Personal life

Asseyi was born in France, and is of Gabonese descent.

Career statistics

International

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionRef
115 September 2017Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen, France1–01–0Friendly
221 October 2017Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes, France1–01–0Friendly
324 October 2017Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France4–08–0Friendly
424 October 2017Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France7–08–0Friendly
54 March 2019Stade de la Vallée du Cher, Tours, France1–06–0Friendly
69 November 2019Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France6–06–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
75 March 2020Stade de l'Épopée, Calais, France1–01–02020 Tournoi de France
822 September 2020Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia6–07–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
923 October 2020Stade de la Source, Orléans, France6–011–0UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying
109 April 2021Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen, France2–03–1Friendly
1117 September 2021Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras, Greece9–010–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
1226 November 2021Stade de la Rabine, Vannes, France1–06–02023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
137 October 2022Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden, Germany1–21–2Friendly
1411 November 2022Estadi Olímpic Camilo Cano, La Nucia, Spain2–12–1Friendly

Honours

Bayern Munich
Montpellier
Individual