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G20 diplomats look to football as a post-summit pastime

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is planning to host his foreign minister counterparts at a quintessential American sporting event. Rubio and a number of colleagues at the Group of 20 meeting of top diplomats are expected to attend Saturday afternoon’s college football game in Atlanta between Florida and Georgia.

A State Department official says 15 of the other G20 diplomats had accepted invitations to watch the game that's been called the “World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party” due the large, boisterous crowds that the matchup attracts.

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