World Cup Betting Archive

Qatar 2022. It’s a long way off yes, but that is where the World Cup will be, after FIFA President Sepp Blatter made the announcement after the final voting process. Qatar was an emphatic winner over the four other entrants on the table, namely the United States, South Korea, Japan and Australia. Again, just as [...]

It has been a somewhat troubling experience, but FIFA have settled on Russia to host the 2018 World Cup. Ironically, the Russian cry for their World Cup bidding was “Ready To Inspire” which “inspiring” is what the voting process from FIFA has been anything but. The build up to the final decision from FIFA was [...]

2010 FIFA World Cup Winner:- Spain Us punters needed not turning up in fairness as Spain, the ante-post favourites to land their first World Cup crown, clinched the 2010 FIFA World Cup and justified why so many, although us not included, fancied their chances before the tournament kicked off at Soccer City on June 11th. [...]

Host: South Africa Winners: Spain Runners-up: Holland Third Place: Germany Fourth Place: Uruguay Top Goalscorer: Thomas Mueller (Germany) – 5 Goals Participants: 32 Teams Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Holland, Honduras, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Korea, Paraguay, Portugal, Serbia,  Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, [...]

In a tournament where several of the unknown shined, FIFA selected their three stand out young performers of these finals and it was a German who continued a legacy of German prodigy’s shining at the World Cup. Thomas Mueller, winner of the FIFA Golden Boot, was rewarded with the 2010 FIFA Best Young Player award [...]

The Yashin Award is presented to the stand out goalkeeper of the tournament, with the 2010 winner following in the line of some big names such as Gianluigi Buffon (2006) and Oliver Khan (2002). Despite not looking as sturdy and reliable as one would ideally want their keeper to be, Iker Casillas took home the [...]

The FIFA Golden Ball is an awarded presented to the most outstanding performer of the tournament, with some of the sport’s finest winning the prize down the years, and on this occasion it went to a player who in our opinion thoroughly deserved the recognition. Diego Forlan wouldn’t have been a name on the forefront [...]

Even we were caught off guard by FIFA’s recent ruling that should their be two or more players on the same amount of goals come the end of the finals that the player then with the most assists would walk away with arguably the most sought after personal accolade a World Cup has to offer, [...]