Gérard Auguste Bourbotte (7 February 1934 – 25 June 2016) was a French professional

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who played as a

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. He is the third top scorer in the history of

Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...

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