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“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

Unfortunately, that could very well happen. The world’s best player according to many, including the FTBL ranting, is seeing his chances of making it to South Africa evaporate quite fast: even victories in their remaining two qualifiers cannot guarantee

Real Madrid’s France international Lanssana Diarra (pictured) found himself in the top 8 of the FTBL ranking of La Liga midfielders after Barcelona’s Cote d’Ivoire international Yaya Toure dropped dramatically.

Barcelona netted another victory yesterday in La Liga over UD Almeria (1:0), with goalkeeper Victor Valdes completing another encounter without conceding a goal. In his last 10 games, Valdes has kept a clean sheet in 8. Nonetheless, the Catalans’s number

Prolific striker David Villa could use Valencia’s next league game against Racing Santander to beef up his FTBL rating, considering he will have a plank of just a single rating point to beat.