David Rutter, executive producer of the official yearly FIFA video games featuring the exclusive likenesses of professional soccer players and teams from around the world, has said that including any women or women’s teams in the game is something that will happen.

Naturally, it won’t be in this year’s FIFA ’13, and he can provide no time table as to when women’s national teams will actually make it into the game, or a game.

Rutter’s comments came in response to an internet petition begun by psychologist, gamer, Brazillian expat, and football/soccer fan Fernanda Schabarum, which called for EA Sports to add women’s national teams to their globally popular annual video game series.

And unlike the vast majority of internet petitions, this one actually got some traction, with Schabarum and Rutter setting up a meeting.