Australia's consul-general in New York, Nick Minchin, is behind a push for an international rules Test between Ireland's top Gaelic footballers and the AFL's best players to be held in the Big Apple as soon as next year. A former national finance minister, Minchin met with AFL CEO Gillon McLachlan at a high-powered gathering of sport, business and media figures in Manhattan during a training camp for the Australian team, which has since departed for Saturday's sole hybrid game Test in Dublin. The all-powerful commissioner of America's National Football League, Roger Goodell, was among the attendees to the function where Minchin, an avid Adelaide Crows fan, stated that the AFL...
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