Following their match with the Netherlands on Sunday, Spain has been crowned the newest World Cup champion in sports gambling. In a 1-0 victory, Spain became the first team in World Cup history to win the Cup after losing their first match and also claimed their first ever World Cup championship.



As the 2010 World Cup betting tournament approached there were lots of reasons for European soccer betting buffs to be worried in sportsbook wagering. Foremost on the list of worries was the reality that never before in the 80 years of World Cup odds history had a European team won the World Cup betting tournament when it was put on off of European soil. The South American squads had owned and won each and every World Cup odds tournament that had not been played on the friendly confines of the old continent.

And then the Group Stage of the soccer betting got underway, it looked as if that trend would continue. Spain, the European fave to win the complete World Cup betting tournament, lost its first match to tiny Switzerland. But that was not all. The much ballyhooed English side hardly qualified for the knockout stage of the World Cup odds tournament after they played to a draw with the mediocre US team. Worse still, reigning World Cup betting victor Italy never got out of the Group Stage and 1998 World Cup betting victor France never even landed just one point in the standings in its humiliating three game run in the 2010 World Cup odds tournament.

But the curse is over, fortunately for European soccer betting buffs, and a continental team has won a World Cup betting championship off of European soil for the first time. Spain and the Netherlands faced off in the finals on Sunday, ensuring that the winner would be a continental European nation.

It was a timeless soccer betting competition and a World Cup final to not forget. The championship’s greatest defense took on debatably the greatest offense in this year’s World Cup tournament.

And the old soccer betting adage that defense tops offense held true. Not only did Spain lift the first World Cup betting championship won by a European side outside of Europe, but they also won the country’s first World Cup championship too. This may make the team by far the greatest in Spanish history as it already notched the squad’s first Euro Cup victory in 2008. In fact, it will be recalled as one of the best European sides in soccer betting history.

But the competition for the Golden Boot has been maybe the most interesting betting story of the World Cup betting competition thus far. The Golden Boot is one of the most renowned awards in soccer betting is awarded at every World Cup odds tournament to the person that scores the most goals.

Most individuals considered that competitors such as the Argentine Lionel Messi, Britain’s Wayne Rooney and the Portuguese Christiano Ronaldo would be taking the trophy going into the World Cup betting competition. In fact, between the three of them they managed only one goal. The “Young Player of the World Cup” award too as the sought after Golden Boot were taken home this year by Germany’s Thomas Mueller.

It is been a strange and exciting World Cup for 2010.


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