2012 UEFA European Soccer Championship Betting

This year the Euro 2012 event will be held in Poland and Ukraine between 8 June and 1 July 2012. Sixteen countries will compete for European soccer supremacy. Many of us North Americans have diverse roots and nothing fires up that burning pride and patriotism more than when our soccer players take the field for our countries. Like the FIFA World Cup, the Euro Championships are held every 4 years and the tournament is considered second only to the FIFA World Cup. Bet Euro Cup Soccer Today

The UEFA European Soccer Championship is the main Soccer competition of the men's national football teams governed by the UEFA. Held every four years since 1960, in the even-numbered year between World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the European Nations Cup, changing to the name European Football Championship in 1968. The tournament is considered the second-most important competition among national teams, based on European and worldwide fame, after the FIFA World Cup. Specific championships are often referred to in the form "Euro 2008" or whichever year is appropriate.

Sixteen teams progress to the final tournament, for the 2012 tournament they will be the winners and runners up of the seven qualifying groups. These sixteen teams are divided equally into four groups, A, B, C and D, each consisting of four teams. The groups are drawn up by the UEFA administration, again using seeding. The seeded teams being the host nations, the reigning champions, subject to qualification, and those with the best points per game coefficients over the qualifying phase of the tournament and the previous World Cup qualifying. Other finalists will be assigned to by means of a draw, using coefficients as a basis.

The four groups are again played in a league format, where a team plays its opponents once each. The same points system is used (three points for a win, one point for a draw, no points for a defeat). A schedule for the group matches will be drawn up, but the last two matches in a group must kick off simultaneously. The winner and runner-up of each group progresses to the quarter-finals, where a knockout system is used (the two teams play each other once, the winner progresses), this is used in all subsequent rounds as well.

The winners of the quarter-finals matches progress to the semi-finals, where the winners play in the final. If in any of the knockout rounds after normal playing time, the scores are still equal, extra time and penalties are employed to separate the two teams.

Betting on the Euro Cup

Euro 2012 promises to be one of the more exciting competitions in recent memory, featuring many of the top teams in the world. Euro Cup betting begins by looking at basic statistics. The problem with using statistics to come up with a good soccer betting strategy is that everyone else has them too. Some handicappers rely upon trends when coming up with a good winning strategy. They look at how teams have matched up against each other in the past and concentrate on past Euro Cup history. Neither of these ideas works all the time though. To come up with our own soccer betting strategy we first need to decide whether or not we want to concentrate on, Betting on the Moneyline or totals. Here we choose to bet the Moneyline, so lets look at exactly how it works.

Betting on the Moneyline

Betting on soccer is a little different from betting on other sports. Moneyline wagers have three outcomes: You can pick either of the two teams to win, or you can pick a draw. Remember, if you do not pick a draw and the game ends in a tie, you will lose your wager.

Game Time Frame

All games are official for wagering purposes after 40 minutes of the second half have been completed. Unless otherwise specified, the score at the end of regulation play - that is, 90 minutes plus injury time - will be used when settling all wagers. Any results from extra time, golden goals or penalty shootouts are not included.

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World Cup Soccer Betting Tips:

For people wanting to bet, an interesting statistic about the FIFA World Cup is the fact that over its long history, there have only been seven different winners. Over the seventeen tournaments, Brazil has won 5, Italy & Germany 3, Argentina & Uruguay 2 and England & France 1.

Six of the tournaments were won by the host country. However, alongthe way there have also been some extraordinary upsets. This includes the USA's defeat of England in 1950, North Korea's defeat of Italy in 1966 and Cameroon's win over Argentina in 1990.

World Cup Description FIFA:

The World Cup or simply World Cup, is the most important competition in international football (soccer), and the world's most representative team sport event. Organised by Federation Internationale de Football Association(FIFA), the sport's governing body, the World Cup is contested by men's national football teams which are FIFA members. Soccer is played on every continent and the FIFA soccer World Cup is the most viewed sporting event in the world. In 2002 (staged in Korea/Japan) a cumulative in home audience of 28.8 billion viewers watched the tournament.

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