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A Uruguayan player has captured the lead in the FTBL ranking of South American strikers after a long absence, but the player is not last year’s winner of the Golden Boot, Atletico Madrid’s Diego Forlan, but Ajax’s Luis Suarez.

Ajax’s Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez had a hat-trick as his side trashed RKC Waalwijk 4:1 in the Dutch league and grabbed the 2nd spot in the FTBL ranking of strikers in the league with 114.94 points.

Real Madrid’s new coach Manuel Peligrini has reportedly deemed Dutch international Rafael van der Vaart (pictured) surplus to requirement, prompting German Bundesliga side Hamburg and Dutch powerhouse Ajax, two teams he has played for in the past, to

Santiago Silva (pictured left), the Uruguayan forward of Banfield in the Argentinean Primera A, grabbed a double in his side’s 5:0 trashing of Independiente to boost his rating by 28 rating points.

Diego Forlan (pictured right), the best rated football player in the world at the moment, will have a high plank of 35 rating points to beat when his country Chile host Brazil in World Cup 2010 qualifying on June 6. Uruguay are 5th in the table behind