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- ↑ "Emiratos y el pasaporte de Comoros, extraña simbiosis". The Line Breaker (in Spanish). 30 December 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- ↑ Waleed Al-Hammadi at Soccerway. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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