"When I was a player, there was nobody caring about it. We just played in front of 2,000 spectators. Now when the national team is playing, maybe there are 23,000 spectator, with media present and a lot of broadcasters there.

"It's a kind of revolution to us in France. When you want to play football, men or women, you can play, it's not like when I was a player," she added.

Just after the 100th penalty was scored, the poster symbolizing Paris was revealed on the screen, composing of the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe. The event depends on everyone taking part, with each goal signaling every single day prior to the tournament.

It's like the values projected by the World Cup, meaning that everyone can come together and share in a celebration.

"We have sold about 500,000 tickets. It means that everybody wants to come and share the same emotion, because we won the men's World Cup last July," Henriques pointed out.

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