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\u201cI mentioned an exclusive story involving one of the most controversial, gifted and talked about figures in Australian sport, I can now reveal the identity of the athlete is Israel Folau – the former Wallaby, AFL and NRL superstar,\u201d Christopoulos said on Ben Fordham Live.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my information today that he\u2019s been shopped around to at least \ufeffone club in the National Rugby League – that being the Wests Tigers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m told that Benji Marshall, the coach, has been approached by Israel Folau\u2019s manager. There\u2019s talk of a train and trial deal, which could be done as soon as the June 30 deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n
Israel Folau of the World XV looks on during the Killik Cup match between Barbarians and a World XV at Twickenham Stadium on May 28, 2023.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Folau has not played in the NRL since 2010 – when the former Melbourne Storm high flyer left the Brisbane Broncos to join new AFL team the GWS Giants as a marquee player.<\/p>\n
Folau\u2019s AFL career was brief as he managed just 13 games for the Giants in 2011 and 2012 before switching to rugby union with the NSW Waratahs.<\/p>\n
The former Wallaby, who has since represented Tonga, made a brief return to rugby league with French club Catalans Dragons in 2020.<\/p>\n
But he is currently playing rugby union in Japan with Urayasu D-Rocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel Folau is reportedly eyeing a stunning return to the NRL. 2GB\u2019s Spiro Christopoulos said on Tuesday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1724,64,63,137085,9421,4428,7618,350895,24840,28814,9239,1208,2057,6243,2105,162639,941,2022,41606,4466,3583,159,2633,350894,85,27477,3586,4515],"class_list":["post-724448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-rugby-league","tag-benji-marshall","tag-brisbane-broncos","tag-cameron-ciraldo","tag-code-hopper-link","tag-david-rogers","tag-dean-ritchie","tag-eastern-asia","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-french-club","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-israel-folau","tag-japan","tag-london","tag-marquee-player","tag-melbourne-storm","tag-northern-europe","tag-rugby-league","tag-rugby-union","tag-spiro-christopoulos","tag-sports","tag-stunning-return","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wests-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}