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- ↑ (in Portuguese) Jogadores paraguaios só chegam ao América-SP na quinta-feira - Futebol Total [ permanent dead link ] (Retrieved 11 October 2007)
- ↑ Daniel Sanabria at National-Football-Teams.com
