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Valencia striker and Spain international David Villa (pictured in red) concludes the season as the best in the FTBL ranking of Spanish forwards with a tally of 209.19 points.

Valencia’s otherwise prolific striker and Spain international David Villa saw a perfect chance to top the FTBL Top 23 for Europe slip away as Spain were wrong-footed yesterday by a surprisingly inspired U.S. football team and sent crashing out of the

Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic (pictured), who scored a goal in his side’s 3:0 win over Sienna in Serie A action yesterday, finally entered the FTBL European Top 23 after earning 23 rating points to take his tally to 171.98 points over all.

Atletico Madrid will host Valencia on Sunday with their eyes firmly set on a place to next season’s Champions League, while strikers David Villa and Sergio Aguero will throw in a battle for rating points.

Argentine prodigy Lionel Messi grabbed the second place in our FTBL World Top 23 rating of best midfielders after a dazzling performance in Barcelona’s 6:2 thrashing of rivals Real Madrid yesterday in La Liga. Messi now has 193.21 points over all.