[1][4] 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.

[1][2][3] Due to a mistake in his civil status that persisted through time, he was wrongly considered the youngest French international in the 2010s, at the age of 16 years and 306 days; this figure was the result of a confusion with a certain Julien Émile Verbrugghe, born in Roubaix on 26 December 1889.

[5][6][7][8] 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.

[1][2][3] As a result of the First World War, Verbrugge joined the 71st Infantry Division of the French Army, and was wounded by a rifle bullet to the right leg, received at the very end of the First Battle of the Marne on 10 September 1914.

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.