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- ↑ Friedrich Michau at scrum.com, accessed: 30 March 2010
- ↑ FC St. Pauli rugby website Archived 2007-05-21 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 30 March 2010
- ↑ Friedrich Michau profile at totalrugby.de (in German) accessed: 30 March 2010