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- ↑ Brecht Capoin joins KV Kortrijk for one season Archived 16 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ TheFA.com – 'The future looks good'
- ↑ "England C 0–1 Belgium Under-21s". 20 May 2009.
