World Cup Betting Archive  July 2010

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. Many [...]

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, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA
 
The first [...]

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, [...]

Spain v Netherlands Betting Odds
Spain to win: 11/10 at Bet365
Draw: 5/2 at Bwin
Netherlands to win: 3/1 at Victor Chandler
To Lift the Trophy
Spain: 4/7 at BetFred
Netherlands: 13/8 at Coral
Spain will go into the 2010 FIFA World Cup final without any worries over injury. Not that coach Vicente Del Bosque is one to change up the side [...]

Germany ensured that all of the summer’s major honours went the way of European sides, as a 3-2 win over South Americans Uruguay cemented their place in the finals top three and thus landing them third-place in the 2010 FIFA World Cup behind Holland & Spain.
 
In what proved to be a pulsating affair in this [...]