Like many players who sometimes lack experience in D1, Suzy Morin (2nd year in Staps) has a hard time appreciating her work. At 20, the young player is constantly looking for the requirement, sometimes to forget the pleasure. A trait of personality, which marks however the Breton character of the native of Saint-Brieuc, who has settled in D1 by dint of work and which aims to continue its momentum to be a key element of the formation Guingampaise. Just after the PSG / EAG (3-3) match on April 2nd, we went to interview him.

Football Hearts - I noticed that on the field, you're pretty reserved, but you're still decisive with good support including. What do you think of this description?
Suzy Morin - Okay ... yes. Well, I'm not very optimistic about myself, I'm very demanding. I can not really tell me when I'm having good games. I will rather see negative things than good things. Sometimes the girls tell me when I had a good match, but I think that I missed some things, that I could have done better. Anyway we can always do better.

Hearts of Soccer - Well then we also know that the position of defender today, it has evolved, it is only a matter of defending, but also to bring on the sides, the movement, the overcrowding and sometimes be decisive on the set pieces. Are you trying to work on your side?
S.M. - Oh yeah, the offensive part is going to say, that's what I prefer. To bring offensively, to spill out into the corridors, to be in the attacking position, if you can hit, these are things I love.

Soccer Hearts - All right, because this season in D1, you've made 16 games, including 13 in the incumbent, but you have zero goals (unlike last season when she scored one)?
S.M. - Yes zero goal, but last year I woke up in the last game where I managed to score a goal [against Rodez]. So I hope to reiterate this, this year.

Football Hearts - This is something that often comes back now to the defenders of wanting to bring offensively.
S.M. - Yes because it is always a plus, to make good centers. Offensively we bring a numerical superiority [as a defenseman] so it can unlock a lot of situations.

Hearts of Foot - In a match, on which aspects you insist, your movements, the position of your teammates, your opponents? What do you still have to work for you?
SM - On games, I have to pay attention to my defensive mistakes, because I do too much ... If not offensively, I try to make a lot of calls, talk with my community (Louise Fleury or Faustine Robert ) to tell him that I'm going to get in his back, split up.

Hearts of Soccer - Looking back at the draw against Paris (3-3), it did you a lot of good I think after the defeat against Montpellier at home or Marseille home? Some newspapers even talked about "remontada" and more (like West France).
S.M. - Yes, yeah, what's odd is when Salma [Amani] scored her first goal, I went to congratulate her, I told her a word "remontada". It marks the second goal, I tell him again and there Desire [Oparanozie] marks the third, it was crazy. We did not come back. Nobody thought the match was lost at halftime. We said, we have opportunities, it's up to us to wake up, we'll put one, that's for sure. (smile) After, we could have even won the match, it was played at a very small amount.
Yes for the confidence of the group, it is certain that back three goals at Paris Saint-Germain, it's good. We wanted to do something against Paris.

Football Hearts - We also felt that you had even more fans - because we were also at the EAG / MHSC match - against Paris this weekend? Does it also play the public?
S.M. - Yes after there were a lot of Guingamp families who were at the match so they made some noise. Yes because it was PSG and it was outside, they knew we needed them too. We could hear them on the pitch, with "Allez Guingamp". Of course it's nice, especially outside.

Soccer Hearts - You feel like you're a fervent supporter of Guingamp.
S.M. - Ah yes, yes. When you are born Breton, you have to put up with Guingamp.

Football Hearts - I was talking about it with your coach, Sarah M'Barek, and I told him that Guingamp is really the soul of Football.
S.M. - Ah yes anyway (surprise). Football, yes, in the street many people place on their car, small EAG stickers, pennants ...Hearts of Football - Yes we really feel the excitement around Women's Football in Brittany. Like the record at France / Greece, the Military World Cup, the Coupe de France final to be held this year in Vannes, the U20 World Cup in 2018 as well.
S.M. - Ah yes yes, everyone loves football in Brittany, let's say.

Football Hearts - Did you have major competitions, even in high school for example? Because we know that the Saint-Brieuc high school is world champion.
S.M. - Yes, that's it I did two years in Saint-Brieuc and in first year, I was in sports section in Morbihan. They won the UNSS World Championship. They went to Guatemala and they won the shoot-out.

Football Hearts - I also saw that you have been in football for a very long time, since the age of 6 you have a ball on the foot. Your parents are very present in this environment too, since your mother was President of a club and your father, a former player. Is that something you want from there too, football?
S.M. - Yes it has always been family. It's my parents who decided to put me to football. My sister also played a few years.

Soccer Hearts - Was it a sport you wanted to practice from the beginning or is it against you then?
S.M. - Yes initially, I saw my sister who played football, my father who played football, so I wanted to test too and suddenly I hooked and I stayed.

Football Hearts - How did you feel about being detected by Guingamp, because I saw that you first joined the U19s?
S.M. - It was a little by chance. I needed a girls club, because I could not play with boys anymore. I had an uncle who knew one of Guingamp's coaches, who gave him the number of the former coach who looked after the girls. I did two workouts and then he kept me. So I was lucky.

Soccer Hearts - Did you feel you had the level, because you had to be 16 years old at that time?
S.M. - Yes I was 16 years old. After I knew a lot of girls on the team, because I had made the departmental team with some of them.

Hearts of Foot - Since your first year in U19 with Guingamp you played 13 games including 12 as holder, while there are 18 days, how come? It was complicated to follow the pace?
S.M. - At the beginning (thinks) I was not scheduled to play in U19, I had discussed with the coach. My first year I was 16 years old, so play U19, it's still very good. There were injured teammates so he made me join the group and then after the end of the year went well. I was not hoping to play so much in U19, in my first year.
Yes and I was not training with them the week, because I was in Pontiville, so it was a bit difficult on the weekends to know the game tactics, all that was set pieces ... The coach gave me a little debrief in the week, to tell me what the girls were doing in training.

Football Hearts - Does that mean he really counted on you on match day?
S.M. - Well, yes, I think (laughs), I hope.

Football Hearts - The U19 is also an experience that some players live in France, but that was not your case. How do you explain it?
S.M. - Yes, after I think I had not the level ... I had to progress a little longer, to be at the level of others, I do not know too much ...

Football Hearts - Yes, but at the same time when you are young, the level is a little more homogeneous because you are progressing at almost the same speed, but you did not have the same curriculum as some U19 players who played the game. 'Euro for example last year and who made other young selections. So it played too?
S.M. - Yes, that's it. The girls who were at the pole too. I was at the Guingamp training center.

Football Hearts - Is it still a goal to join the academic, B or A with time?
S.M. - Must I progress, that I am more decisive offensively and defensively. We still have to work and after we'll see. Frankly, the team of France I really did not think. For me, it is above all to give the best of myself in club, to progress a maximum. After if there is the selection, it will be only bonus, whether university or team France B. We'll see, I'm not there yet (smile).Soccer Hearts - It takes a lot of sacrifice to go through the high level, is it something you've done little by little?
S.M. - Yes that's after it comes as and as the objectives we set. There with the D1 for sure it is necessary to make many sacrifices, we see less our families but good after that is that I want it too. We train every day and when we play Sunday, sometimes we train on Saturday mornings. We are in quotation marks "a pro club" we do not get to live [Football], and we have not the same infrastructure [as boys] but we have a very good training around. In addition we have the double project, because we know that with Football, we will not be able to live all our lives so we say we must have a project next door.

Football Hearts - I also noticed that you had more and more playing time, that you had the trust of Sarah M'Barek, so it's going well for you?
S.M. - Yes, it is certain that when we have the confidence of the coach, it is easier to make good matches and to prove that we can hold, that we can chained the matches. After it's giving / giving. When the coach gives me a chance, I want to prove to him that I can bring to the team.

Football Hearts - Are there any players with whom you get along a little better perhaps?

S.M. - Frankly, I get on well with all the players, we get along really well. After I have more affinities with some players, like Léa Abadou, Charlotte Lorgeré, Maryne Gignoux, they are real girlfriends, even off the field.

Soccer Hearts - Because you are in the same area, so you speak a little more?
S.M. - Yes, that's it. I think it helps us on the ground, because we are in the same area of ​​play, we get along as well outside. After that happens we engage in the field. But what happens on the pitch is the pitch, it's normal.

Football Hearts - And you take a little advice from some other players a little more experienced?

SM - I'm young, so it's true that I can have the advice of more experienced players, like Charlotte [Lorgeré], Marine [Pervier], Salma [Amani] ... They are players who also bring us to US the young ones].

Hearts of Football - So last question, it concerns your next meeting against Albi, how do you prepare it? It's an important match moreover?

SM - Yes it's an important match against Albi, because it's the penultimate match at home so we're going to want to do well, especially to prove that our draw against Paris, will serve us to hope to win this match. To show a good picture of us and why not go for the 5th or 4th place.


Photos: Nelson Fatagraf