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Club Atletico Huracan’s young midfielder Javier Pastore (pictured) has captured the leadership in the FTBL top 23 of U-21 midfielders despite competition from more celebrated players from powerhouses such as Arsenal, Barcelona, and even Real Madrid.

Fiorentina’s Brazil midfielder Felipe Melo, who until recently was buried deep in the FTBL Top 23 of Serie A midfielders and even flirted with the lower threshold at one point, has now improved his rating to the point of surging to the top.

Sevilla’s Brazilian striker Luis Fabiano (pictured) concluded a very productive week in South Africa with the Selecao in the Confed Cup with a double in the 3:0 routing of hapless world champions Italy. Fabiano is now firmly in 6th place in the FTBL Top

Real Madrid’s two recent superstar signs Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka will soon be slugging it out in the battle for rating points, and despite Ronaldo’s higher price tag, it is likely that Kaka, instead, will take the lead in that battle, at least until

Real Madrid’s Spain international Iker Casillas is using the Confed Cup in South Africa as an opportunity to patch up his personal rating: he picked up 20 rating points after Spain painfully beat Iraq 1:0 in their second outing in the competition. With