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PLAYER PROFILE AYOUB ASSAL AFC WIMBLEDON WINGER
By John Lyons

If Ayoub Assal keeps turning in the kind of displays for AFC Wimbledon that he has recently, it won’t be long before he’s climbing the football ladder.
Over the last couple of years, the 20-year-old has marked himself out as one of the most exciting attacking players outside the top two divisions – and drawn admiring glances from a host of big hitters.
The Dons lost talented academy graduate Jack Rudoni to Huddersfield in the summer following their relegation to League Two, but did well to hang on to Assab. The English-Morocca...

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