World Cup: Odds And Futures For Brazil
May 8th, 2014 by G WaldorfIn the early hours of the morning Australia time on June 13th, the world will turn its gaze to Brazil for the FIFA World Cup 2014, and, as always, it’s the hosts who will run out for the first game of the tournament. This time around, those hosts are Brazil, who have won the coveted trophy an unprecedented five times, and they will line up against Croatia, ranked 20th in the FIFA rankings. We’ve got all Brazil World Cup odds for you if you follow the link, and we’re going to take a look at some of those odds as well as a few futures here…
As the hosts, Brazil have enjoyed automatic qualification to the 2014 tournament, so we’ve got no qualification form to go on, but they did win the warm-up tournament last year, beating Spain in the final. 16 of the players who took part in that win return as members of the squad for the 2014 tournament, and Brazil are rightly high on the list of everyone’s key contenders for the World Cup. The bookies at Sportsbet have them as the favourites, in fact, and at odds of $4.00 to win an incredible sixth trophy on home soil, and they’re at odds of $1.30 to open the tournament with a win against Croatia. A lot, of course, will depend on how the Brazil side copes with the pressure of a home tournament, and the enormous weight of expectation that will be on them. Soccer is a very big deal in Brazil – the announcement of the squad for the World Cup was a massive event with 700 accredited journalists in attendance – and there have been more than a million tickets to the games sold across the country. We expect to see a party atmosphere off the pitch, and we’re hoping for some vintage Brazil on the pitch: check out all those Brazil World Cup odds by following the link!
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