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Belgian side Club Bruges bemused after Percy Tau social media tsunami

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“In the time that Percy played here we went from 18,000 to 31,000 followers but we didn’t count how many came from South Africa.'

A social media tsunami has hit the club with 40,000 new followers for Brugge from South African fans of Tau‚ according to research.

He will miss the first leg of their playoff tie against LASK Linz of Austria next week but Brugge are delighted with their new signing‚ especially the massive interest in the club from South Africans. “We had some experience of this phenomenon when we signed Kaveh Rezaei from Iran but Percy is at a whole new level‚” said the club’s press spokesperson Kirsten Willem.

Tau signed for Brighton and Hove Albion last year and was loaned to Union Saint-Gilloise in Belgium’s second division.Brugge say they plan now to tweet the occasional message in English instead of Flemish for the growing South African audience.Image:“We already have an English language version of our website.

 

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