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- ↑ NASL career stats
- 1 2 Allan Cole at National-Football-Teams.com
- ↑ Allan Cole – FIFA competition record (archived)
- 1 2 Taherzadeh, Bahhaj (25 September 2014). "Bob Marley and the Beautiful Game". Paste Magazine . Retrieved 22 December 2014.
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