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England striker Wayne Rooney (picture right), who remains out of the World Top 23, could return in the elite after England’s World Cup 2010 qualifier against Andorra; his plank to beat in the match amounts to just over 3 rating points.

Borussia Dortmund’s young Serbia international Neven Subotic (pictured left) has been sitting at the top of the FTBL Top 23 of the world’s best U21 defenders with 81.64 points for five weeks running, despite the assaults of Manchester United and Real

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).

Atletico Madrid's star forward Diego Forlan (pictured), the highest FTBL-rated football player in the world at the moment, was humbled on June 6 when Brazil inflicted a crushing 4:0 defeat to Uruguay in a World Cup 2010 qualifier with the Uruguayan unable

Liverpool midfielder and Team Argentina skipper Javier Mascherano (pictured) and Bayern Munich’s Mark van Bommel are poised for a return in the FTBL Top 23 of the world’s best midfielders after World Cup 2010 qualifiers this week.