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Barcelona’s super star Lionel Messi (pictured) could re-claim the top spot in the FTBL rating of the world’s best midfielders with a strong performance when Argentina travel to Ecuador for a 2010 World Cup qualifier on June 10.

The three highest rated goalkeepers in the world, all playing for English Premier League clubs, now have a new rival in Inter Milan’s Brazilian Julio Cesar (pictured).

Cote D’Ivoire's 2:1 win away in Guinea on June 7 in a World Cup qualifier brought changes in the FTBL Top 23 of African forwards, with Olympique Marseille’s Ivorian striker Bakari Kone (pictured) forcing out fellow countryman Salomon Kalou of Chelsea.

Chelsea’s Portuguese defender Jose Bosingwa (pictured) returned into the elite group of the world’s top football players after an absence of two and an half months following Portugal’s 2:1 win over Albania in a World Cup 2010 qualifier yesterday.

Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard (pictured right) and Chelsea’s Frank Lampard (pictured left) have overtaken Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo in the FTBL Top 23 of the world’s best midfielders and have their sight now firmly set on first-placed Lionel