With the 2014 Football World Cup soccer tournament just around the corner, today we are going to take a look at some of the more unusual types of bets you can place on this festival of Football! There are many betting sites offering bets and wagers which you may fancy placing, and below we have listed some of those more unusual, but none the less great valued novelty type wagers on offer.
Eliminated By A Penalty Shootout – All England fans know that a penalty shootout is likely to come into effect when England are playing, having as track record of ending up in a situation in previous World Cup matches, this is a situation no fan wants their team to be in! Currently we have found a number of betting sites offering odds of 8 to 1 that England will be eliminated from the World Cup due to a penalty shootout, or should we say when, any match ends in a penalty shootout!
First Time Winner – Whilst many of the teams playing in the World Cup this year have won it previously, there are several teams that have never won the World Cup, but have managed to make it through to the final rounds of this year’s tournament. If you are convinced this year’s winner of the World Cup will be a team that hasn’t won it before, then do some shopping around for you will find several betting sites offering odds as high as 7 to 2 that a team will win the World Cup for this first time this year.
Finish Second in Group – Another type of bet which you may be interested in placing, is one on which you have to select a team that is going to finish second in that teams respective group. We have taken a look at several online betting sites, and have found the following odds on each team in Group A to finish second in that group, and the odds are Croatia 13/8, Cameroon 7/2, Mexico 13/8 and Brazil 5/1.
With there being eight individual Groups in the first stage of the World Cup, then it will pay dividends for you to have a good look through as many of our listed betting sites as it possible, for the odds on offer will vary from site to site. Plus with all betting sites eager to get you to place a bet on the World Cup a range of additional special bonus bets are also available at each site, during the entire World Cup 2014.
Top Goal Scorer – There are some very large odds being offered on who will be the top goal scorer in the 2014 World Cup tournament. In fact currently the player with the lowest odds attached to them is Lionel Messi who is part of the Argentina squad, and his odds are currently 8/1 to be the player who manages to score the most goals.
Each player taking part in the World Cup has odds attached to them in regards to them being the top goal scorer, so if you do have a favourite player then this bet may be of interest to you. For reference the current player with the largest odds attached to them is Joshua Kennedy. This player is part of the Australia team and if you fancy a bet on him then you will get some massive odds of 500/1 on him being crowned the top goal scorer of the 2014 World Cup!
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