Julien Verbrugghe

Early life

Jules Adrien Verbrugge was born in Paris on 27 October 1886, as the son of Cornelis Adriaan Verbrugge, a Dutch from Bergeijk and a shoemaker by trade, while the mother was described as a domestic cook. Oddly enough, during the 1911–12 season, Verbrugge helped out at Red Star by pairing up at the back with Alfred Gindrat, in order to make up for the absences of Lucien Gamblin when he did not get leave from the Army. This information was then spread by several media outlets, especially in September 2020 during Eduardo Camavinga's first selection at the age of 17.

Red Star football team, 1910. Verbrugge is seated on the far right.

With Red Star joining the French Interfederal Committee (CFI) in 1910, Verbrugge found the opportunity to wear the national jersey again, in 1911, three times, but failed to shine in any of them. This resulted in him being discharged and limping. In the absence of additional information, it remains unknown whether this injury, apparently not life-threatening, played a role in the player's premature death, on 22 February 1921, at the age of 34, which was not reported by the newspapers.