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Spain has been titled the newest World Cup champ in sports gambling following their game with the Netherlands on Sunday. In a 1-0 win, Spain became the first team in World Cup history to win the Cup after losing their 1st competition and also claimed their 1st ever World Cup championship.

There were lots of reasons for European soccer betting fans to be nervous in sportsbook wagering as the 2010 World Cup wagering competition approached. Primarily on the list of issues was the fact that never before in the eighty years of World Cup odds history had a European team won the World Cup wagering tournament when it was put on off of European soil. The South American teams had owned and won each World Cup probabilities competition that had not been played on the favorable confines of the old continent.

And it looked as if that trend would continue when the Group Stage of the soccer wagering got moving. Spain, the European fave to win the complete World Cup gambling contest, lost its first match to tiny Switzerland. But that was not all. The much vaunted English side scarcely qualified for the knockout stage of the World Cup odds competition after they played to a draw with the mediocre US squad. Worse still, reigning World Cup gambling victor Italy never progressed out of the Group Stage and 1998 World Cup betting champ France never even scored just one point in the rankings in its humiliating three game run in the 2010 World Cup probabilities competition.

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

It was a classic soccer wagering game and a World Cup final to not forget. The championship’s greatest defense took on arguably the top offense in this year’s World Cup tournament.

And the old soccer gambling adage that defense tops offense held true. Not only did Spain win the country’s first World Cup championship, but they hoisted the 1st World Cup gambling championship won by a European side outside of Europe as well. This may make the squad by far the greatest in Spanish history as it already notched the team’s first Euro Cup victory in 2008. In reality, it will be remembered as 1 of the finest European squads in soccer wagering history.

But the race for the Golden Boot has been maybe the most fascinating wagering story of the World Cup gambling event thus far. The Golden Boot is 1 of the most esteemed trophies in soccer betting is granted at every World Cup odds contest to the person that scores the most goals.

Heading into the World Cup wagering competition, most folks thought that players such as the Argentine Lionel Messi, Britain’s Wayne Rooney and the Portuguese Christiano Ronaldo would be taking the trophy. Instead, between the 3 of them they managed only one goal. The “Young Player of the World Cup” award also as the coveted Golden Boot were taken home this year by Germany’s Thomas Mueller.

It’s been a peculiar and interesting World Cup for 2010.

Spain only hardly gained their victory with a final score of 1-0 even with being the heavily favored team to win this competition on Saturday in the betting lines. Spain will now be proceeding on to the semifinals, where it will stand before Germany. In a final score of 4-0, Germany won their quarterfinals game versus Argentina.

David Villa attained the winning goal in the 83rd minute, also getting his 5th goal of the World Cup. Now, in a repeat of the Euro 2008 final where Spain beat Germany 1-0, they will be facing Germany again. Villa, for his part, is confident that Germany is not likely to be happy to see them in the World Cup online betting semifinals.

The World Cup’s only leftover South American squad is now Uruguay with Brazil, Argentina and now Paraguay being eliminated from the competition. Uruguay eliminated the last of the African teams when they defeated Ghana in a heartbreaking penalty shootout.

The issue regarding the World Cup wagering when it reaches the knockout stage is that there are typically no easy teams left in the tournament. But this year it is been a crazy competition and there is undoubtedly a hierarchy of the teams leftover in the World Cup odds contest. At 1 end of the competition you have the greatly liked squads like Spain (3/1) and on the other end you have World Cup wagering afterthoughts like Paraguay (55/1).

And strangely enough these two teams squared off on Saturday in the World Cup betting quarterfinals. Obviously Spain was the huge favorite, as it ought to have been, in the World Cup probabilities going into this match.

Paraguay had a penalty shoot out win vs mid-level team Japan and hardly qualified for the quarterfinal match. And it primarily got into the Round of 16 competition after securing a bad Group F which was 1 of the poorest in the World Cup wagering action.

Spain on the other hand, in spite of a shocking beginning competition loss to tiny Switzerland in its 1st match of the 2010 World Cup betting action, has been hugely impressive. It continued to win 2 must win competitions –one of them vs a quite good Chilean side. In the Round of 16 it played the toughest opponent of the tie, Portugal, and dispatched its Iberian neighbor and World #3 with little difficulty.

Now it appears as if it has got its ticket punched into the World Cup gambling semifinal action too. Spain was made a 13/25 fave to defeat its South American adversary by the World Cup sports books. The 2nd nearest soccer betting line in the World Cup betting quarterfinal event is a far away 49/50.

Spain hasn’t even played up to its potential yet, and that’s the crazy thing about this. Supporters have been waiting for the perfect match from this Spanish side, or at least a top notch performance, and this team hasn’t come close to producing it. Perhaps buffs will finally get to see what this team is capable of against the German side in the approaching World Cup semifinals betting.

After a lackluster performance in their opening game of the World Cup wagering vs the Yanks, the English are mad, as well they ought to be. England qualified for the 2010 World Cup odds competition with plenty of ease wrecking its qualifying group competitors. It also climbed the FIFA world standings and prior to defender Rio Ferdinand followed only Spain (4:1) and Brazil (5:1) in the soccer betting probabilities at the sportsbooks. Its lineup is loaded with EPL stars and world class skill like Stevie Gerard, Frank Lampard and debatably the best striker in the world, Wayne Rooney.

Yet the best the English may muster was a 1-1 draw at the online sportsbook versus an substandard US squad. Worse, the US’ only goal came on a horrible gaffe by the English goaltender who granted the ball to slip through his hands on a regular save and watched as it dribbled into the goal.

But England needs to have bounced back from the comparable World Cup betting humiliation and save 3 points from Algeria. Algeria looked fairly weak during its 1st game, a 1-0 loss to Slovenia. Granted Algeria played most of the soccer wagering match down a man following its star striker was shown a red card in the first half, but it was clear that this squad was not of the same class as Ye Olde’ Englande.

In this sports wagering game, it was expected for the English to score early and often. Wayne Rooney should have been able to find much more space against a below average Algerian defense and manage to break free of his defenders considerably more easily than he did versus the US.

England knew how critical these 3 points are and it may not only let them get away. A tie puts them on the brink of elimination from the group, and the squad’s hopes of reaching the knockout stage of the World Cup odds contest would be all but snuffed out. They might find themselves in a 4 way battle only to advance from the group stage and this squad is simply too talented to find itself omitted of the Final 16 of the World Cup betting.

The only way to gamble this World Cup wagering competition was on England to win it (1/4), though the payout isn’t much.

Regrettably for England, which was a hugely favored squad going into the World Cup, Algeria held them to a tie. England’s continuously unimpressive performance in the World Cup 2010 is represented by the final score of 0-0. To date in this tournament, they basically have not been aggressive enough.

Coach Fabio Capello was horrified at the team’s performance. His remarks that “this isn’t the England I know” are most likely echoed by the countless fanatics. At the same time, he recognized that the strain of the World Cup may be affecting the team’s ability to score at their usual levels.

Even the Algerian coach, Rabah Saadane, was surprised at England’s weak effectiveness. He had suspected they would be better, and they just weren’t at their greatest throughout Friday’s match.