In good time: The women's team and the association have signed an agreement Israel today

After lengthy negotiations, the women's team and the association reached an understanding.

The national team will return to training as early as tonight (Monday) ahead of its away game against Bulgaria in the 2023 World Cup qualifiers.

The association said: "The fruitful dialogue yesterday between the players and the association gave birth to a concluding document reflecting the common desire to ensure possible optimal professional conditions for the selected players and relevant teams for professional success and believing in the industry's great potential."

Yossi Sharabi, CEO of the Football Association: "The association has always emphasized its uncompromising commitment to the promotion of women's football and the agreements we have reached faithfully reflect this.

After the meeting last Tuesday, led by the chairman of the association, Oren Hasson, it was clear to us that there is much more in common between us and the players on the team than the disagreements.

The women's soccer team.

Great news, Photo: Oded Karni

"The agreements we have reached attest to the respect we have for women's football and the senior team in particular. "In the passionate passion, hard things were thrown at the association that would have been better avoided, but thinking about the promising future by joining hands is the formula for advancing the industry.

Karin Sandel, Chairman of the Players' Association: "I would like to thank the Football Association and its leaders, Chairman Oren Hasson and Yossi Sharabi, for showing a real desire for partnership and commitment to produce significant and real change in women's soccer in Israel.

"We are really happy and excited to be the ones who will ensure a better place for the actresses who will come after us. There is a super significant statement here for every girl, girl and woman and every athlete that she is equal, and it should be a compass for all sports in Israel.

"Sport is a significant social and cultural tool, and equality is an inseparable value from it. We can and can be proud of it, all of us, it puts us in line with the rest of the advanced countries of the world who understand the tremendous potential in women's football. Here it blooms and thrives.

"I want to thank the 'Builders Alternative' group who were real partners in the journey, and led with great determination the message for equality, they really taught us all a lesson in solidarity and the power of women to produce significant social change that I hope and believe will be recorded in history books. "A trophy for the true commitment to equality and women's sports, to Ayelet Resin, head of the Authority for the Advancement of Women, and many other partners and true partners along the way. One last word, to my friends on the grass - I am proud of you, for our determination, solidarity, maturity and faith in the right of way."

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