According to Ladbrokes and many other reputable online betting sites, Spain is the hot pick to winthe 2010 World Cup.
Spain is presently the 4-1 favorites to win the World Cup. England is second at 5-1, Brazil third at 11-2 with Argentina and Germany next at 9-1.
Led by star Fernando Torres, the Spaniards will begin their Cup title run in arguably the easiest of the groups, Group H, which features Honduras, Chile and Switzerland.
Spain is also buoyed by what could be an agreeable round of 16 match. The Group H winner is scheduled to meet the Group G No. 2 team, which could be Portugal or the Ivory Coast.
Spain is making their 13th World Cup appearance. Their best prior performance was a fourth place finish in 1950. Lucky #13 anyone?
Here are the current full World Cup odds per Ladbrokes:
| Spain |
4/1
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| England |
5/1
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| Brazil |
11/2
|
| Argentina |
9/1
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| Germany |
9/1
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| Italy |
10/1
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| Holland |
11/1
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| France |
16/1
|
| Portugal |
20/1
|
| Ivory Coast |
25/1
|
| Chile |
40/1
|
| Paraguay |
40/1
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| Cameroon |
66/1
|
| Denmark |
66/1
|
| Ghana |
66/1
|
| Greece |
66/1
|
| Serbia |
66/1
|
| USA |
66/1
|
| Uruguay |
66/1
|
| Mexico |
80/1
|
| Nigeria |
80/1
|
| South Africa |
80/1
|
| Australia |
100/1
|
| Japan |
125/1
|
| Republic of Korea |
125/1
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| Algeria |
150/1
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| Slovakia |
150/1
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| Slovenia |
150/1
|
| Switzerland |
150/1
|
| New Zealand |
1000/1
|
| Democratic Korea |
1000/1
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| Honduras |
1000/1
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hi i think new zealand will win the world cup ive jsut put a 2000 pound bet on them to win i think its really tight, brazil are good but dont have the class like a team like new zealand its a no brainer
I hope this is the year the bookmakers got the odds right on England. I hope we are as strong 2010 World Cup contenders as the market suggests. An outside bet has to be the Ivory Coast. I saw them outplay Holland and Argentina in the 2006 World Cup. Luck was not on their side though and they finished third. I hope this 2010 World Cup is a good one with plenty of entertaining Football.
As always England seem to have been given really low odds by all the online bookmakers. Really surprising when you consider it’s 44 years since they last won it. No other team in the top 8 (apart from Spain who came second in 1982) has gone that long without winning the World Cup!
Uruguay – last time – 1950…
USA USA USA
Spain did not finish second in 1982
Spain had played excellent football in the qualifying matches. All their star players are in top notch. May be that’s why they are at the top among all European teams . Even football experts at http://www.oleole.com/football-results/ls.asp have termed Spain as ‘Black Horse’ .
Chile al da way
My apologies Eduardo, your right. They only hosted the World Cup in 1982.
al who? who did he play for? im not familiar with that name
I’m Greek, and I wish my team goes as far as it can in this World Cup. Never the less, I’m sure that the winner will be a SPANISH TALKING COUNTRY ( BRAZIL speaks Portuguese ) and I’ll narrow it it down to Argentina or Spain. I did a scenario and these two teams are met in semi-finals and in the other it’s Brazil vs Uruguay. Wouln’t it be fantastic if we saw a final between ARGENTINA-BRAZIL, or SPAIN-BRAZIL ???
Although I Am German I am extremely confident that the country to beat and win the cup is The Netherlands they have an fantasic team of stars with so many that can step up if required. Do not be fooled this is their year very very strong no internal problems
Will Mexico ever win ?
As a gambling man I will be betting on many games in the world cup. A few easy wins in my opinion are : England and Argentina to wins there groups, Spain will go close as will Brazil so Im backing them both to make the semis.
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I also agree with mcdpoker and sinead above. Brazil and spain will be hard to beat and have the best form. Nice squidoo lens too by Sinead
What kind of surprises will there be in this year’s World Cup?
Im with you Sinead, a Brazil v Spain final it is. I’m going to go with Spain though as they thumped Poland 6-0 the other day and are bang in form!!
SERBIA!!!!!
Bring back the glory England!
Argentina wins it all
I think england will beat USA 2-0
“hi i think new zealand will win the world cup ive jsut put a 2000 pound bet on them to win i think its really tight, brazil are good but dont have the class like a team like new zealand its a no brainer”
Yes, the New Zealand team is classy- classy like playing football in tuxedos is classy, like drinking tea while goaltending is classy. You can go ahead and wipe your buttocks with that marker to get some proper use out of it.
Here we go
Well we just drew for our pool, wife has Argentina/Switz, I have Ghana/USA, top 4 win the rewards in ours
England are far from 5/1 second favourites now!
Honduras will upset you all, the sleeper team! Watch and see!
I love Denmark
Mark my word. South Korea going to win this year World Cup. hehe.
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooalllllllllllllllllllllll
USA Let’s GO USA!
england better than brazil? that is laughable…
I wonder how many people got the World Cup winners correctly – quite a few I would imagine as Spain were the favourites. I think 4-1 seemed like good odds. This is not to say it wasn’t close though – a fantastic tournament
Fernando Torres is playing for Chelsea. It's fantastic!!!