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Not many Japanese football players play in big European leagues, and Catania striker Takayuki Morimoto (pictured left) is one of them. With an overall FTBL rating of 65.19 points, he ranks 2nd among forwards at the club and is the best Japanese striker

Bayern Munich’s Bastian Schweinsteiger (pictured) scored the opener in Germany’s 2:0 win over Azerbaijan in a World Cup 2010 qualifier Wednesday to simultaneously capture the top spots in the FTBL rankings of midfielders in the German Bundesliga and German

VVV-Venlo’s Japanese midfielder Keisuke Honda (pictured left), who is being touted as a Manchester United target, is struggling so far in the FTBL ranking of Japanese midfielders with a rating of just 23.39 points.

Chelsea's Germany skipper Michael Ballack could be expected to boost his rating when he leads his country in a World Cup 2010 qualifier against Azerbaijan Wednesday; his plank to beat in the encounter will amount to just 5 rating points.

Wolfsburg will begin the defense of their title against Stuttgart when the German Bundesliga kicks off in the coming days, with Bosnian international Edin Dzeko, the best FTBL-rated European striker at the moment, facing a tricky plank of 45 rating points