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Hamburg’s Brazilian midfielder Ze Roberto will remain sidelined until year end after undergoing surgery over damaged knee ligaments. This will be a serious loss for Hamburg, since the Brazilian is the club’s best midfielder at the moment by his FTBL score

The FTBL world ranking of veteran midfielders has a new leader in Villarreal’s Robert Pires: the Frenchman took the lead after picking up 8.01 rating points in the Yellow Submarines’s 3:1 win over Valladolid in La Liga, pushing down the former leader,

Villarreal’s veteran France international Robert Pires (pictured) scored twice as the Spaniards trashed Lazio 4:1 in Europa league action yesterday to move closer to the top 8 of the FTBL ranking of French midfielders.

Former Juventus Czech star midfielder Pavel Neved (pictured) has retired at the top of the FTBL ratings of Czech and veteran midfielders at the age of 36.

Villarreal midfielder and former France international Robert Pires (pictured left) continued his ascent in the FTBL rating of veteran midfielders when he picked up 10 rating points in Villarreal’s 3:1 victory over Valencia on Saturday. He now has 77.44