Betting Odds World Cup 2010 Top Goal Scorer David Villa Top Goal Scorer Favorite World Cup Top Goal Scorer Odds One of the most celebrated aspects of football (soccer for ye North American fans of the sport) is goals. It is all about scoring, scoring and scoring. Goals make for exciting matches, lead to victories, naturally, and importantly, make fans go wild. Wild for their teams and wild for the beloved game of football. Congratulations to semi-long shot Thomas Muller on winning the 2010 FIFA World Cup Adidas Golden Boot Award. Heading into the final World Cup games, Muller posted +1600 odds. His final fifth goal was scored against Uruguay during the Third Place match-up. Having three assists, Muller beat out David Villa and Wesley Sneijder, whom both had five goals as well but only one assist each. 2010 World Cup Top Goal Scorer Betting Odds sponsored by Sportsbook.com Arjen Robben +10000 David Villa -125 Diego Forlan +1600 Lukas Podolski +10000 Miroslav Klose +450 Thomas Muller +1200 Wesley Sneijder +250 As the World Cup 2010 approaches speculation abounds: who will be the top scorer in South Africa. That twinkled-toed player to take the Golden Boot Award after all is said and done and a champion nation is crowned. BetUS bookies have rolled out their favorites for the top scorer award and they are as follows: It is a three-way tie for top favorite between David Villa (Spain), Clemente Luis Fabiano (Brazil) and Wayne Rooney (England) all listed at +1000. Many soccer pundits believe Wayne Rooney will finally come of age at this World Cup and show himself as prolific a scorer for England as he is for Man U. I remain on the fence. Should this happen, it would come with a collective exclamation of, "about-time." Rooney is conspicuously without any goals in four World Cup appearances, which makes him a bit of a disappointment on the world stage. He does have 25 goals for England overall and he is after his best season in Premier League action so there is every reason to back him. Fabiano incidentally has no World Cup experience. He does have 25 goals in 36 national appearances though which is a solid recommendation. For my money, I fancy David Villa in this trio. He has 36 goals for Spain and 3 goals in World Cup action to date. You may have noticed the absence of a notorious name, or two, or three from this triplet - which is somewhat peculiar an omission to say the least. Know who I might be referring to? If you are thinking of none other than the best footballer of all time, Lionel Messi (Argentina) and his close seconds Fernando Torres (Spain) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) then we are on the same wavelength. To make matters confounding, Torres is favored above Ronaldo and Messi. The Spanish striker is listed at +1200. Torres has 23 goals in 71 national appearances and 3 goals in 4 World Cup appearances. Cristiano Ronaldo is offered at a tempting +1400. He has 21 goals in 68 national appearances and 1 goal in 6 World Cup appearances. Lionel Messi for whatever reason is large at +1500 where others would have him as the top favorite at the World Cup the bookies don't agree. So who is right? Messi has 13 goals in 41 national appearances and 1 goal in 3 World Cup appearances. Other potential top scorers are listed as follows: * Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina) +1800 * Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast) +2500 * Sergio Aguero (Argentina) +2000 * Nilmar (Brazil) +2500 * Miroslav Klose (Germany) +2500 * Vincenzo Iaquinta (Italy) +3000 * Thierry Henry (France) +3000 * Ricardo Kaka (Brazil) +3000 * Alberto Gilardino (Italy) +3000 * Jermain Defoe (England) +3000 Check out Bovada and start winning NOW! Bovada Sportsbook, Casino, Poker Room & Racebook is known in the online gambling industry for having phenomenal customer service, safe and secure deposit methods, fast & easy payouts and terrific bonuses! BET on Sports & play Poker at BOVADA and receive a 20% FREE BET on your first deposit! --- by Bovada Sportsbook at 1800-sports.com on June 07, 2010
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