The She Kicks Locker Room: Kit Check with Anita Asante

England and FC Rosengard midfielder Anita Asante answers the magazine’s recurring kit questionnaire. Her first boots were Patrick, she now wears Nike Hypervenoms, and her favourites were old Mia Hamm Nike Air Zoom M9s, comfortable and an honour to play in given her respect for the player. A self-described secret hoarder with more than thirteen pairs of trainers and boots, she clears out at the end of each season: her club runs a collection box whose contents go to teams in their South Africa project or to club youth teams, while a further stash at her parents’ home in the UK is sometimes shipped to Ghana. She would kiss Zinedine Zidane’s boot, calling him a master manipulator of the ball, and treasures her Arsenal UEFA Women’s Cup shirt.