After 7 Champions League title wins: Wendie Renard Reveals Just How Much The UEFA Women's Champions League Means www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G6IBi8J5Qc Apart from her century of caps for Les Bleues, what is less well known is that she grew up on the island of Martinique and travelled six thousand kilometres for her first trial at France's Clairefontaine football centre at the age of 14. She wrote about that and her childhood, in 2019: "Life at the End of the World", by Wendie Renard – The Players' Tribune - (Archive) "It was rare for girls to play football in Martinique, so it was even more rare that it was the women in my family who pushed me to play. They were the ones who loved football as much as me." Renard's hometown, Le Prêcheur in Martinique - (img: Sebb)