FILE PHOTO: Rugby League - Super League - Hull FC v Catalans Dragons - KCOM Stadium, Hull, Britain - March 1, 2020 Catalans Dragons' Israel Folau Action Images via Reuters/Craig BroughMELBOURNE: Israel Folau's hopes of returning to rugby league at amateur club Southport were thwarted on Wednesday with Queensland authorities refusing his registration due to a contract issue.
Folau played a season for French side Catalan Dragons before quitting the Super League club last year and returning to Australia with his family. Folau's return has been backed by Southport's team patron Clive Palmer, a billionaire mining magnate who earlier this week threatened legal action against the QRL if it refused to register the 32-year-old.
Folau played rugby league for Australia before switching to Australian Rules in 2011, jumping codes once again to rugby union in 2013.A fundamentalist Christian, Folau had his Wallabies and Super Rugby deals terminated in 2019 after posting a meme that said hell awaited"drunks, homosexuals, adulterers" and others.
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