Ajax — Best pictures!

“The absence of Ronaldo and Messi will not have an impact on the interest of sponsors in the World Cup,” FIFA President Joseph Blatter said recently. That was a bold statement, if hardly sincere. In fact, the chances of the World Cup taking place without

Young Belgian midfielder Marouane Fellaini (pictured) returned in the top tier of the FTBL World Ranking of U-21 midfielders after helping Everton squeeze a 2:1 win at BATE Borisov in the Europa League yesterday.

A Uruguayan player has captured the lead in the FTBL ranking of South American strikers after a long absence, but the player is not last year’s winner of the Golden Boot, Atletico Madrid’s Diego Forlan, but Ajax’s Luis Suarez.

Ajax’s Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez had a hat-trick as his side trashed RKC Waalwijk 4:1 in the Dutch league and grabbed the 2nd spot in the FTBL ranking of strikers in the league with 114.94 points.

Real Madrid’s new coach Manuel Peligrini has reportedly deemed Dutch international Rafael van der Vaart (pictured) surplus to requirement, prompting German Bundesliga side Hamburg and Dutch powerhouse Ajax, two teams he has played for in the past, to