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- ↑ Willy Rivas at National-Football-Teams.com
- ↑ "Mercado: Sporting Cristal contrata a Willy Rivas, Junior Ross y Paulo Albarracín". goal.com/es-la (in Spanish). 10 June 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
