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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

Brazil playmaker Kaka could grab the lead in the FTBL chart of Latin American midfielders after the game against the U.S. in the Confed Cup in South Africa if Brazil once again come out on top.