Second part of our interview with Marion Torrent, Montpellier player (MHSC). Here, we talk about women's football, its evolution, present past and future. Complicated questions because without a simple answer, but that allow us to understand the rapid changes that affect women's football and that allow the best players to live (a little better) of their sport.

CDF: You made videos in 2012, broadcast on Youtube by performing technical gestures deemed difficult. You said at the time want to show that girls know how to play football and deserve to be publicized. Do you feel that the look has changed since 2012 or even your debut, on girls who play football?

Marion Torrent: I do not think it's my videos that have changed and more publicized women's football. What is certain is that since I started football, people's attitudes have changed and many are now following women's football.

When I see the number of spectators who come to see the French women's team in the stadiums, I say to myself: "It's huge". I could not have imagined it ten years ago. Before the edge of the field, there was dad, mom, two or three friends maybe and that's all.

Throughout the world we have seen this year saw record inflows for women's football matches, as at Roazhon Park with more than 24,000 spectators for France-Greece, last June 3

Now, it has taken a bigger scale thanks to the broadcast of matches on TV, thanks also to big clubs like Lyon who managed to do some good things in the Champions League, to the French team that produced matches high quality. And if France ever brought back a title of the Olympics, it would boost women's football even more ...

CDF: In an interview, you talked about women's football saying that it was not yet gangrened by the logic of "football business" that can be found in boys. For you, advancing towards equality whether in the media treatment, in the fact that football players can make a living with their sport, it means that women's football becomes like men's football with some of his excesses, or perhaps just another way?

M.T: At the girls, pro clubs, there were not many. A little more now. The girls for the most part are amateurs. This means that they train 2-3 times a week with additional studies or work.

If they could have a decent wage to play football, they could train every day and progress even more. This would lead to better match quality, tighter scores and even greater attraction for the viewer. Thus, televisions and sponsors would be interested even more and a little more money would be injected into women's football.

But we are still far from boys, their excesses and their stories of "millions of euros". We girls, we know where we come from, so I do not think, that if one day we all live football, things happen at the same stage as boys.

CDF: In Montpellier, the players, you get to live football?

Four or five years ago, we had small contracts that did not allow us to live on them. Some took courses, others worked. The training hours were rather evening. It depended on the schedule of all the players. We tried to balance the best to train all together.

Jean Louis Saez gives his instructions to Marion Torrent. The arrival of the coach in 2013 was accompanied by a transition to the status "pro" for the players of the MHSC

From now on, since the new coach, Jean-Louis Saez, has arrived, he wanted to have only players under contract to be able to train in the best conditions and every day.

So we went all "pros". After that does not prevent to follow formations nearby. That's my case. The club has a partnership with the CREPS [Centers of Resources, Expertise and Sports Performance] and I am a training with schedules over two years.

CDF: And you already feel the difference between the old system and now?

M.T: Yes .... We have 1h30 / 2h per day dedicated to football, but we can stay a bit more if we want to work on a specific point. Then it leaves us a lot of time for care or other training or recreation.

Marion Torrent in training with Montpellier. Football, an activity to which she can devote herself 100%

Previously, we trained in the evening after the day of study or work, so we were more tired and we did not really want to stay a little longer. Now, the main training is in the morning which leaves us time for the rest of the day.To read the first part of the interview, it is here, the rest (third part) it is by there!