Real Madrid — Best pictures!

Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo surprisingly remains entrenched in the top echelon of our World Top 23 with 178.02 despite not having played a rated match for sometime now.

Club Atletico Huracan’s young midfielder Javier Pastore (pictured) has captured the leadership in the FTBL top 23 of U-21 midfielders despite competition from more celebrated players from powerhouses such as Arsenal, Barcelona, and even Real Madrid.

Fiorentina’s Brazil midfielder Felipe Melo, who until recently was buried deep in the FTBL Top 23 of Serie A midfielders and even flirted with the lower threshold at one point, has now improved his rating to the point of surging to the top.

Real Madrid’s two recent superstar signs Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka will soon be slugging it out in the battle for rating points, and despite Ronaldo’s higher price tag, it is likely that Kaka, instead, will take the lead in that battle, at least until

Real Madrid’s Spain international Iker Casillas is using the Confed Cup in South Africa as an opportunity to patch up his personal rating: he picked up 20 rating points after Spain painfully beat Iraq 1:0 in their second outing in the competition. With