Mexico 2010 FIFA World Cup Odds: Another team that is looking to bring home the 2010 FIFA World Cup Title is the Mexico national football team. Go to SPORTSBOOK.com to get all of the current 2010 FIFA World Cup odds.
Ranking 17th in the FIFA World Rankings, the Mexico national football team has brought in plenty of championships but none in the World Cup. Mexico is coming in at +8000 odds, Mexico brought in some controversy in the 1990 Cup when they were disqualified for using players over the age limit allowed by FIFA in the qualifying round. Overall, they’ve done fairly well going into the quarterfinals in 1970 and 1986 in which both were on Mexican soil. They made it to the 16th round at the last World Cup in 2006.
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Goalkeepers: Oscar Perez (Chiapas), Guillermo Ochoa (America), Luis Ernesto Michel (Guadalajara)
Defenders: Rafael Marquez (Barcelona), Ricardo Osorio (Stuttgart), Francisco Rodriguez, Carlos Salcido (both PSV Eindhoven), Hector Moreno (AZ Alkmaar), Paul Aguilar (Pachuca), Efrain Juarez (Pumas UNAM), Jonny Magallon (Guadalajara), Juan Carlos Valenzuela (America), Jorge Torres Nilo (Atlas), Adrian Aldrete (Morelia)
Midfielders: Andres Guardado (Deportivo La Coruna), Jonathan dos Santos (Barcelona), Gerardo Torrado (Cruz Azul), Israel Castro (Pumas UNAM), Giovani dos Santos (Galatasaray, on loan from Tottenham)
Forwards: Pablo Barrera (Pumas UNAM), Adolfo Bautista, Alberto Medina (both Guadalajara), Cuauhtemoc Blanco (Veracruz), Carlos Vela (Arsenal), Javier Hernandez (Manchester United), Guillermo Franco (West Ham).
Drawing Group A, Mexico will be going against South Africa, Uruguay, and France in the 1st round of the 2010 World Cup. They will be the 1st match of the Cup going head to head with South Africa on June 11th out of Johannesburg. New key players to watch are Giovani dos Santos, Javier Hernandez and Carlos Vela. Also, keep your eye on Rafael Marquez who will be influential and is playing in his last finals.
"At the last four World Cups we've been on the cusp of the quarter-finals and reaching the last eight has now become more of an obsession than a goal," Mexico manager Javier Aguirre told a Spanish football magazine. "I have the best ever young generation of footballers, they won the under-17 World Cup. Add that to our experienced players and I feel this team is ready to make history."
The 2010 FIFA World Cup begins June 11th and go to SPORTSBOOK.com to get all of the current 2010 FIFA World Cup odds:
Algeria: +50000
Argentina: +750
Australia: +12500
Brazil: +450
Cameroon: +10000
Chile: +6600
Denmark: +12500
England: +600
France: +1800
Germany: +1200
Ghana: +8000
Greece: +15000
Holland: +1100
Honduras: +75000
Italy: +1200
Ivory Coast: +3300
Japan: +30000
Mexico: +8000
New Zealand: +250000
Nigeria: +12500
North Korea: +200000
Paraguay: +8000
Portugal: +2800
Serbia: +6600
Slovakia: +25000
Slovenia: +25000
South Africa: +15000
South Korea: +20000
Spain: +400
Switzerland: +20000
USA: +8000
Uruguay: +10000
