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- ↑ "2020 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying – Player National Team Roster" (PDF). CONCACAF . 21 January 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 January 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
- ↑ "Johane Laforte". Footofeminin.fr (in French).
- ↑ Gorvens Baptiste, Marc (January 2020). "Football féminin – J.O. 2020 : la liste officielle de l'équipe haïtienne sans Rachelle Caremus" [Women's football – Olympics 2020: the official list of the Haitian team without Rachelle Caremus]. FootKole (in French). Retrieved 22 January 2020.
- ↑ "Panama v Haiti". Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
