"Women's football has its history ahead of it, while its male counterpart seems to be at the end of its own."

The women's footballers were almost in the clear. The beginning of July could have been reserved for their European Nations Championship, held in Switzerland , and given them exposure outside the permanent shadow cast by their male counterparts. But FIFA, the international federation, with its new, extra-enriched Club World Cup, inflicted stiff competition on them until July 13.

TF1 even preferred to broadcast the final of this competition on this date, rather than the last and decisive group match of the French women against the Netherlands, relegated on TMC. The channel finally transferred the rights to France 2 , whose viewers enjoyed the resounding victory of the Blues (5-2), while those of the first channel witnessed the live burnout of Paris Saint-Germain against Chelsea (0-3).

The French women, who are playing the quarter-finals of a competition sportingly more important than the FIFA exhibition tournament against Germany on Saturday, July 19, now have nothing left to worry about but the latest transfer news. They will be able to better gauge what role they have in today's football.

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