Third part in the present, for the continuation (and end) of this interview with Marion Torrent who evolves in Montpellier (MHSC). Here we talk about the past season, the results ... And then, of course, following the league with Montpellier while she resumed training with her club on June 30. It evokes its positioning on the field but also the team of France which for the moment makes wait Marion ...

Football Hearts: So to talk about the season that just passed, you made a very good start to the season, then a start of 2016 more complicated before a final of the Coupe de France. What assessment, with a little hindsight, you pull the season that comes to run for Montpellier?

Marion Torrent: Let's say we did the opposite of what we did the previous season. We started this season on the same dynamic as the end of last season and after our good results in Paris, Juvisy and our draw against Lyon, we started to believe and we said to ourselves "Why not think of the 2nd square ! ".

But our bad start, in the second half of the season, cut short our illusions. Then we hooked to the Coupe de France and it took us to the final lost 2 to 1 against Lyon two / three minutes from the end.

So the record is not satisfactory because we think we had the opportunity to do something about this season. But we do not give up and we will re-attack this year with the same ambitions.

CDF: After we have the impression by watching your matches especially against Paris that the hierarchy is not fixed and Montpellier is not that far?

M.T: No, it's not fixed. You can reach one of the first two places. Against Paris, with a draw 0-0 away and a 2-1 defeat at Grammont (in a day without), but also with a 2-2 and a penalty shoot-out (Coupe de France), we thinks we're not that far away ...

Marion Torrent at the duel with Kenza Dali. This season, Montpellier has moved closer to Paris, even managing to bring the club from the capital in the semi-finals of the Coupe de France

This season, we have some starts but otherwise the base of the team remained, while there is still a lot of change in Paris. So why not this year? Because we always have the mind!

CDF: The Coupe de France is a competition you won in 2009 with Montpellier. Since you went five times in the final but lost each time. In French football, there is often talk about the "lack of mental", the lack of "culture of winning" in some players, in France in particular. For you, can that be one of the explanations for the lost finals?

M.T: No. I think we have the mind. We lose on an individual action of Louisa [Nécib] so we can not say that we let go mentally. It's an individual feat that made the difference. The previous finals, we lose 2 to 1 against the champion of Europe ...

Now the mind is a personal matter. We have it or we do not have it. It is especially the player to question and motivate herself. You can have talent, if the mind does not follow, it's not enough. I do not think I have this concern for the mind.

CDF: On a completely different subject. Today you play right side but I saw that initially you played in the axis as a defensive midfielder and a central back. You are also ambidextrous, how did you end up playing right side?

M.T: I was trained in defensive midfield, being young. When I arrived in D1, I played central defender because there were injuries to this post.

And then we played the Champions League and as I had a good match in central defense in the league, but the girls came back from injury, the coach told me: "Since I'm happy with your performance, I do not want to 'remove from the team, so we will make you play on one side'. So suddenly, she made me play right side. That season, I alternated defensive midfield, central and lateral defense.

CDF: Do you miss playing in the axis? Because it's true that it's not at all the same role ...

M.T: Central defender, I have always been told that I had good investments but that I was short of size. Lateral and defensive midfielder are two different positions.

Marion Torrent facing Amandine Henry. If she plays today right side, the number 4 montpelliéraine began his career as a defensive midfielder.

In '6', it takes volume of play, run a lot and have a good VMA (it falls well mine is good!). Collect balloons, I like it a lot. In addition we have the opportunity to project forward and we touch the ball often.

In side, one makes different efforts, in a corridor, and sometimes, according to the matches, one does not touch often the balloon. But overflow and bring centers and a surplus, it can be good too. But my training is in '6' and it's a job I really like.

CDF: Players who are not lateral at the start and who become later, we have some examples, with for example players who start attacking and are replaced sideways. Is not it a way, as you say, to keep very good players in the field even if it's not their starting position?

M.T: It's true that now the lateral position is no longer the position where you stay behind and where you just defend yourself. One can bring a lot offensively by spreading the game on the sides.

The job has evolved a lot. Last season, I played the biggest games in defensive midfield more than on the side. But hey, I play where I am told, as long as I play ... But if I could fix myself to a position it would be good too ...

CDF: Last question, about the France team. It's one of your goals to wear the blue jersey, and why not play Euro 2017 and the World Cup in France. For the moment you are at the door of the selection, with summons but no entry into play. How do you feel about the Team France?

Several times called in France by Philippe Bergeroo, Marion Torrent has not yet honored his first selection with the Blue. A question of time?

M.T: I will continue to work to succeed. I hope it will come one day, I wish it. And that's a goal I've set for a long time. It is true that to arrive one day to have this first selection, it would be something big for my family and for me. Then, of course, the goal would be to stay there and it goes through good results in club, cup and championship.

I hope we will call me soon ... In any case, I will always answer.

The first two parts of Marion's interview is here (part 1) and there (part 2)