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Tournament of Upsets So Far

The group stages have not even ended in the FIFA World Cup 2010, and already we have seen two big teams going down to rel­a­tive min­nows. After Spain’s defeat to Switzer­land, it was the1998 World cup champion’s France’s turn to face the music. France who had drawn their first match against Uruguay came back with a vengeance against a very impres­sive Mex­ico side, but could not make it last for long. Soon the Mex­i­cans set­tled down and laid siege at Lloris’s goal, they finally breached the French defense when Man­ches­ter United bound striker Javier Her­nan­dez drib­bled... 

FIFA 2010 World Cup Favorites Suffer a Setback

World No.2 Spain started their World Cup cam­paign on a dis­ap­point­ing note, when it suf­fered a shock­ing defeat to Switzer­land. The loss ended Spain’s amaz­ing run of 12 straight wins and handed the Span­ish just their sec­ond loss in 50 games. It was also the first time that a Swiss team beat the Span­ish although they played each other 18 times previously. The cur­rent Euro­pean cham­pi­ons, Spain, dom­i­nated the match with 72% pos­ses­sion and had 24 shots at goal, out of which eight were on tar­get. Amidst this bar­rage of shots, the Swiss goalie Diego Benaglio... 

FIFA World Cup 2010: Brazil 2–1 North Korea

With all the odds stacked against them North Korea started their FIFA World Cup 2010 Cam­paign on an impres­sive note, hold­ing 5 time FIFA champs Brazil till the 55th min. It took a maraud­ing Maicon to put Brazil 1 nil up and restore some nor­malcy to the pro­ceed­ings. When Elano scored in the 72nd min, Dunga would have thought the game was dead and buried, but there was another twist to the game when Ji Yun-Nam scored in the 89th min, still the Brazil­ians were able to hold on till the end and with this cru­cial win go to the top of the table in Group G. Brazil started the match at... 

Group of Death Ready to Kick Off

Finally the most awaited Group in the World Cup begins the pro­ceed­ings tonight. Group G con­sists of teams like Brazil who have won the most prized pos­ses­sion 5 times, they are def­i­nitely the favorites to top this group. But if Ronaldo and Drogba have any say in the mat­ter, things could change very quickly. The dark horse in this group is with­out a doubt North Korea, who seems most likely to miss the knock­out stages. Tonight’s matches has the bat­tle between Por­tu­gal and Ivory Coast and North Korea faces off against the mer­cu­r­ial Brazil­ians. Both are aware that... 

Hosts Start With a Draw

The hosts South Africa were denied a fairy­tale begin­ning to the World Cup after Rafael Marquez’s goal with 11 min­utes left in the match earn­ing Mex­ico a deserved draw at Soc­cer City in the opener of the 2010 World Cup. Siphiwe Tsha­bal­ala scored the first goal of the World Cup, mak­ing an excel­lent run on the left side and fin­ish­ing the move with a bul­let of a shot from a very steep angle, leav­ing Oscar Perez with no chance at all. South Africa had numer­ous chances to build on their lead but failed to do so, and much to the dis­ap­point­ment of the 85000 strong... 

2010 FIFA World Cup Preview

Finally, the time has come for the highly antic­i­pated World Cup South Africa 2010. The biggest sport­ing event kicks off this Fri­day, June 11. This marks one of the most imper­a­tive events in South African his­tory, over and above the entire con­ti­nent of Africa, as they will be show­cas­ing the soc­cer World Cup for the first time. Let’s take a quick glance at the teams that stand a bet­ter chance of win­ning over oth­ers in indi­vid­ual groups. In Group A, it is extremely dif­fi­cult to pre­dict the advanc­ing team with the host nation in it, as South Africa will... 

Soccer Betting Online

Soc­cer Bet­ting Online Means Rich Rewards The inter­na­tional soc­cer fans take their sport extremely seri­ously. These fans are a spe­cial breed, and their emo­tional involve­ment with their favorite teams often trans­lates into a finan­cial back­ing. There are many out­stand­ing online web­sites that do an excel­lent job in pre­sent­ing the lines for wager­ing for the fans. Soc­cer bet­ting online is a big busi­ness and mil­lions of dol­lars exchange hands each year on these bets. There are so many pro­fes­sional leagues, and so many teams and games, that the dili­gent...