Spain has been titled the newest World Cup champion in sports gambling following their match with the Netherlands on Sunday. In a 1-0 victory, Spain claimed their 1st ever World Cup championship and also became the 1st team in World Cup history to win the Cup after losing their 1st match. 
There were a lot of reasons for European soccer betting fans to be worried in sportsbook wagering as the 2010 World Cup betting tournament approached. First on the checklist of issues was the fact that never before in the 80 years of World Cup odds history had a European team won the World Cup wagering tournament when it was held off of European soil. Every single World Cup odds tournament that had not been played on the favorable confines of the old continent was dominated and won by the South American squads.
And then the Group Stage of the soccer betting got going, it appeared as if that trend would continue. Spain, the European favorite to win the whole World Cup betting tournament, lost its 1st match to tiny Switzerland. But that was not all. The much ballyhooed English side played to a draw with the mediocre US team and barely qualified for the knockout stage of the World Cup odds tournament. Worse still, reigning World Cup wagering champ Italy never got out of the Group Stage and 1998 World Cup wagering champ France never even scored even one point in the standings in its humiliating three game run in the 2010 World Cup odds tournament.
But luckily for European soccer betting fans the curse is over and a continental team has won a World Cup betting trophy off of European soil for the 1st time. Ensuring that the champ would be a continental European country, Spain and the Netherlands faced off in the finals on Sunday.
It was a timeless soccer wagering competition and a World Cup final to not forget. The championship’s best defense took on probably the best offense in this year’s World Cup tournament.
And the old soccer betting adage held true that defense tops offense. Not only did Spain lift the 1st World Cup betting tournament won by a European side outside of Europe, but they also won the country’s 1st World Cup championship as well. This might make the team by far the greatest in Spanish history as it already notched the squad’s 1st Euro Cup victory in 2008. Actually, it will be recalled as one of the best European teams in soccer wagering history.
But perhaps the most fascinating betting story of the World Cup betting competition thus far has been the competition for the Golden Boot. The Golden Boot is one of the most esteemed trophies in soccer wagering is awarded at every World Cup odds tournament to the individual that scores the most goals.
Most individuals considered that participants such as the Argentine Lionel Messi, Britain’s Wayne Rooney and the Portuguese Christiano Ronaldo would be taking the prize going into the World Cup betting competition. In fact, between the three of them they landed only one goal. The “Young Player of the World Cup” award as well as the sought after Golden Boot were taken home this year by Germany’s Thomas Mueller.
It is been a strange and intriguing World Cup for 2010.
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