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I've seen several cry in the locker room and I understand them. As a professional footballer and as a woman in general, we shouldn't feel that our life is in danger.

— Eugénie Le Sommer

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Sexist comments, every player has heard them at some point in their career.

Everything is going well on the field side, yes. This is also the message I want to get across: football must continue, we must not prevent ourselves from living because of malicious or unhealthy people.

It’s important for us to be able to give our opinion and that it comes from the field of play, directly from women’s players.

I was one of the most experienced players in our league and with the role I had in the changing room, I wanted to be able to change things, to be able to help develop women’s football.

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