A team who will be considered one of the favorites in France is Brazil. The Samba Girls are going for their 8th world title but the bulk of the squad plays their club football away from the country. Currently only 6 members are based in the Brazilian women's league and CGTN's Paulo Cabral explains why this could be.

This a woman's only training facility in Sao Paulo. It was set up in advance of the Women's Football World Cup, to be played in France, as part of an effort to boost the sport here in Brazil.

PAOLA REOLA STUDENT "We have to play in public places that are usually dominated by male players. So, often chauvinism dominates, and they don't want to let us play."

CLARA HELENA STUDENT "Boys think only they can play football. So when we play with them they never want to pass the ball to us, until they realize we can play as well as them or even better. And usually we play better than them."

This former coach of the Brazilian women's national team, now the head of the Santos Football Club, leads the training here. Emily Lima says the mandatory creation of women's teams in Brazil's Premier League - effective this year - was a good start but not enough to create real momentum for the sport.

EMILY LIMA SANTOS COACH "There's much talk that things have been improving for women's football but what about working conditions for the girls? Will they get only the leftovers? There are some big clubs with women's teams now but it's still mostly the crumbs that get to them."

PAULO CABRAL SAO PAULO "The creation of new women's teams has been welcomed as an important step in developing the sport here in Brazil. But in most cases, these are amateur teams that do not pay full salaries. So there are now more opportunities for women to play but very few avenues to become professional athletes."

The Corinthians Football Club is among a handful of teams which already has a professional women's team in place ahead of the new regulation.

The club director hopes over time other teams and leagues will pay more attention to female athletes.

CRISTIANE GAMBARE CORINTHIANS DIRECTOR "We already have an important women's tournament here in the state of Sao Paulo and there are other state leagues now that have been trying to boost their tournaments. And this hasn't been happening only because of the new rule of mandatory women's teams but also because there is a new market being created which will be larger in the long run, in the next two or 3 years."

Adriana Leal is a striker at Corinthians. She hopes female athletes are up for the challenge.

ADRIANA LEAL CORINTHIANS STRIKER "I felt a lot of prejudice when I was young I almost gave up on football because of that. When we played, I would hear from the boys: 'That's wrong, a girl playing with us; it won't work.' This is the kind of thing women still hear every day."

While Brazilians love their football equality for men and women players still have a way to go. Paulo Cabral, CGTN, Sao Paulo.