His number of goals in the France team? Marinette Pichon does not pretend to hesitate: "81." That's as much as Thierry Henry and Just Fontaine, the two stars of men's football, combined. An absolute record, held for thirteen years from 2007, the year when the native of Bar-sur-Aube in the former Champagne-Ardenne hangs up the crampons. "The first footballer I heard about growing up was Marinette Pichon," says Eugenie Le Sommer, the Olympique Lyonnais striker who dethroned her. Before, I thought that becoming a professional was impossible.
»Many aspiring footballers have grown up dreaming of Michel Platini, Zinedine Zidane or Kylian Mbappé. But rarer are the children who lined posters with the effigy of Marinette Pichon the walls of their room.
"I could have skidded quickly"
No doubt they will be more after discovering the film Marinette. Scheduled since Wednesday, June 7 in theaters (and financed by Crédit Agricole), this biopic is the very first...
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