Viviane Asseyi

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Viviane Asseyi
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Asseyi playing for Montpellier in 2013
Personal information
Full name Viviane Marie-Louise Blanche Asseyi [1]
Date of birth (1993-11-20) 20 November 1993 (age 30)
Place of birth Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 West Ham United
Number 26
Youth career
2000–2008 US Queuvillaise
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2009 Rouen 25 (23)
2010–2016 Montpellier 124 (43)
2016–2018 Marseille 42 (13)
2018–2020 Bordeaux 38 (24)
2020–2022 Bayern Munich 36 (13)
2022– West Ham United 44 (12)
International career‡
2008–2009 France U16 10 (5)
2009 France U17 5 (1)
2010–2012 France U19 17 (4)
2014–2017 France U23 10 (1)
2013– France 66 (14)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18 May 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 5 December 2023

Viviane Marie-Louise Blanche Asseyi (born 20 November 1993) 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. [2] 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. [3]

In 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, she transferred to 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. [4]

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. [5]  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. [6]

On 2 August 2022, Asseyi joined Super League club West Ham United. [7] In the 2023–24 home game against Manchester United, she scored the equalizer making it 1-1 in the 85th minute. [8]

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. [9]

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. [10] 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. [11]

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. [12]

Personal life

Asseyi was born in France, and is of Gabonese descent. [13]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 18 May 2024 [14]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [lower-alpha 1] League cup [lower-alpha 2] ContinentalTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
FC Rouen 2008–09 D2 Féminine 161000——1610
2009–10D2 Féminine91300——913
Total252300——2523
Montpellier 2010–11 D1 Féminine 11330—20163
2011–12D1 Féminine20940——249
2012–13D1 Féminine18730——217
2013–14D1 Féminine18865——2413
2014–15D1 Féminine20943——2412
2015–16D1 Féminine19362——255
2016–17D1 Féminine18462——246
Total124433212—2015855
Marseille 2016–17D1 Féminine21910——229
2017–18D1 Féminine21420——234
Total421330——4513
Bordeaux 2018–19D1 Féminine221210——2312
2019–20D1 Féminine161231——1913
Total382441——4225
Bayern Munich 2019–20 Frauen-Bundesliga 0000—1010
2020–21Frauen-Bundesliga15931—402210
2021–22Frauen-Bundesliga20531—61297
Total351462—1115217
West Ham United 2022–23 Women's Super League 2262051—297
2023–24 Women's Super League2261130—267
44123181—5514
Career total308129481681131377147

International

As of match played 5 December 2023 [15]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
France 201310
201460
201540
201620
201754
201870
2019142
202073
202173
202252
202380
Total6614
Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Asseyi goal.
List of international goals scored by Viviane Asseyi
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionRef
115 September 2017 Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen, France Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 1–01–0Friendly [16]
221 October 2017 Stade du Hainaut, Valenciennes, France Flag of England.svg  England 1–01–0Friendly [17]
324 October 2017 Stade Auguste-Delaune, Reims, France Flag of Ghana.svg  Ghana 4–08–0Friendly [18]
47–0
54 March 2019 Stade de la Vallée du Cher, Tours, FranceFlag of Uruguay.svg  Uruguay 1–06–0Friendly [19]
69 November 2019 Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, FranceFlag of Serbia.svg  Serbia 6–06–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying [20]
75 March 2020 Stade de l'Épopée, Calais, France Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1–01–0 2020 Tournoi de France [21]
822 September 2020 Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia Flag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia 6–07–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying [22]
923 October 2020 Stade de la Source, Orléans, FranceFlag of North Macedonia.svg  North Macedonia 6–011–0 UEFA Women's Euro 2022 qualifying [23]
109 April 2021 Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen, FranceFlag of England.svg  England 2–03–1Friendly [24]
1117 September 2021 Pampeloponnisiako Stadium, Patras, GreeceFlag of Greece.svg  Greece 9–010–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification [25]
1226 November 2021 Stade de la Rabine, Vannes, FranceFlag of Kazakhstan.svg  Kazakhstan 1–06–0 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification [26]
137 October 2022 Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden, Germany Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1–21–2Friendly [27]
1411 November 2022 Estadi Olímpic Camilo Cano, La Nucia, Spain Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2–12–1Friendly [28]

Honours

Bayern Munich

Montpellier

Individual

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