World Cup Betting Archive  May 2010

Mexico coach Javier Aguirre unveiled his final 23, twenty-three players he hopes will take the country deep into the 2010 FIFA World Cup from June 11th – July 11th. One of the more notable exclusion, purely because of his name, was Jonathan Dos Santos, the younger brother of former Barcelona ace Giovani Dos Santos. While [...]

Zimbabwe V Brazil Wednesday, 2nd June – 14:30 GMT International Friendly Harare, Zimbabwe   It is always interesting to see which teams the coaches hand-pick to face their team in preparation for a major tournament. Generally, coaches choose teams which will provide their players with a more than adequate test, allowing the manager to assess [...]

  Definitely packing their bags: Scott Parker, Stephen Warnock and Michael Dawson None of the above names played any part in England’s two recent warm up games against Mexico and Japan, leading us to believe that Fabio Capello has no room for any of three nor has he even contemplated including them in his final [...]

  Australia V Denmark Tuesday, 2nd June – 13:00 GMT International Friendly Johannesburg, South Africa We have the pleasure of viewing two of the 32 teams about to compete in this summer’s forthcoming FIFA World Cup or at least we would have had this match been played in Australia in front of the Betfair and [...]

World Cup betting will pay much head to the deadline announcement day, as it is packed with some interesting International friendly matches. Team have to submit their final 23 man World Cup squads to FIFA on the deadline of June 1st, and while some, like Brazil, have already named their 23, there is much speculation [...]

Real Madrid defender Pepe has been given permission to train with the Portugal World Cup squad. After being out of action since last December, the attacking defender is still hopeful of playing in South Africa 2010. Coach Carlos Queiroz would naturally like to get Pepe back in the side, simply because of the threat he [...]

World Cup betting will have had a lot of mixed reactions to the victory which France produced over Costa Rica in their recent World Cup warm up match. For most people watching, France struggled tremendously to get a grip on the game, and the system which they were playing. Domenech, who is known for tinkering [...]

Since winning the 1998 FIFA World Cup on home soil, France have built up an unwanted reputation of being unreliable from a punters perspective, with ‘inconsistency’ a word never too far away from the lips of pundits whenever France come to mind. So we suppose no-one should be at all surprised that France were once [...]