Absent at the last meeting of the Coupe de France in the 1 / 32nd round, the young messine Héloïse Mansuy was able to get back into the swim quickly, to bring a point of cohesion in the collective of FC Metz against Yzeure for the 1 / 16th. With a narrow victory in the end (0-1). Interview.

=> The summary of the match - Coupe de France (16th): Metz has escaped from Yzeure.

Soccer Hearts - It was a big match today for you?
Héloïse Mansuy - Yes, difficult. Already the field, we are not used to play on green, it was 3 weeks that we played only synthetic and it was a combative team. A team of D2 against a D1 necessarily they wanted to show and I found that it was a good team. After we had weaker moments too, but here we were able to score and this is the most important.

CDF - Still a former resident of D1, Yzeure?
HM - Yes, he's a former boarder and it feels like a good level of play, it's a club that has a good tactic but we had to be stronger, because we are the ones who are in D1 now.

CDF - This is the first game of the year for you, what are your first feelings?
H.M. - Well already I played middle left, normally I play right defender and there it was, I could score, I missed one or two goals if all in all it was.

"I like to attack"

CDF - Is it a job that you like to play in front?
H.M. - Yes, I like to attack and then have to see my qualities and my faults, for now I am more apt to play defense, but yes I like.

CDF - Marine [Morel] and Juliane [Gathrat] were asked the question about your complicated start to the season. How do you explain it on your side?
H.M. - I think we have a lack of efficiency especially. After we have a good team with good individuality but yes collectively that wedge can be a little. We do not necessarily have to put in place the strategy we would like. Because we create opportunities and we do not get to the bottom, so necessarily in D1, it pays cash.

CDF - How is it now this second part of the season for you?
H.M. - Well, we'll try to follow up on victory. Anyway we are obliged to stay, so here we will try to stay up to the end. After we'll see.

CDF - Your next match is Albi this weekend, how are you feeling?
H.M. - There is a direct competitor in addition, so a compulsory victory because already in the first leg I think we could have won. We dominated and it was at home, we take a goal at the last minute of the game on a counter, but then I hope we will take our revenge. Since we win there (in the Coupe de France), we want to continue our momentum.

CDF - You are one of the players who proved to be from the Euro to the World Cup, what explains this evolution?
H.M. - I think the Euro has already been a click. I think that suddenly I thought that I could do beautiful things and that I still had to progress to participate in the World Cup. There was competition of the coup I liberated myself. I worked hard for [being at] the World Cup. After I had my little injury ... (warming up before France / Germany) so it prevented me from playing the rest of the competition.

"I do not see why we girls, we could not play football"

CDF - You have probably seen the streamers of these few Lyons fans, who posted macho comments at the stadium. What do you think of this machismo in football?
H.M. - It does not affect me, because I think it's anything. There's women's football, there's men's football, both are beautiful to see, the two are different. I do not see why we girls could not play football, only for boys. After that, there will always be some people who are not very smart, do not worry about it, you have to keep going in women's football.

Photo: Nelson Fatagraf