“Building Community in the Holy Land through Football”.
The Friends of the IFL (FIFL) was founded in 2015 by Jewish and Christian friends who have a love for Israel and a passion for football.Bringing together young men or women on a football team gives them tools and values for the rest of their lives. Jews, Christians and Muslims, religious, secular and ultra-Orthodox, native Israelis and new immigrants all become one working and striving, as a team, for victory.
The game of football is one of the greatest teachers, and meritocracies, in the world. Hard work and perseverance, discipline and sacrifice, camaraderie and teamwork are just some of the traits these young men and women must refine as they prepare for a football game, as they prepare for their military service and as they prepare for the rest of their lives.
The FIFL works in full cooperation with the Federation of American Football in Israel (AFI), working to meet the needs of the exciting, growing, yet costly sport of football in Israel. Both the FIFL and the AFI are lean and efficient organizations, and we make sure that we help develop all aspects of the greatest team sport in the world in the greatest land in the world!