2010 FIFA World Cup Odds Preview – Honduras: The Honduras national soccer team arrives in South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup listed on the BetUS.com World Cup board with almost no chance (1000/1) of winning a single game much less the overall competition. Honduras is not at a World Cup level.
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his 2010 Honduran team, reaching the World Cup finals for only the second time, is coached by Columbian, Reinaldo Rueda. After taking the job in early 2007, his professionalism struck a chord with the powers that be in Honduran football, who gave him the time to work denied many of his predecessors. Rueda repaid that faith by guiding his adopted country to South Africa 2010 on the back of sparkling attacking football and a solid backline.
Over and above the country's big-name stars plying their trade in the European game, Honduras' key man in qualifying was 36-year-old forward Carlos Pavon . In typically clinical fashion, it was the well-travelled goalgetter who fired his side's winner in El Salvador to ensure their place at the African showpiece. Aided and abetted by the hugely talented David Suazo, Wilson Palacios, Julio Leon and Amado Guevara, Pavon would love nothing more than to crown his glorious international career with a goal-laden showing on the biggest stage of all.
Honduras still appears to have plenty of work left to do in the final days before the World Cup as they were held to a goalless draw by 10-man Azerbaijan in Austria on Wednesday. Wayward shooting meant Honduras never really tested Azerbaijan goalkeeper Salahat Agayev, even after the 73rd-minute dismissal of Sasa Yunisoglu for a rash tackle.
Ramon Nunez was the only Honduras player who managed to force a save in the entire match, but his left-footed shot from the edge of the area was easy enough for the goalkeeper.
Honduras will face Chile, Spain and Switzerland in South Africa 2010's Group H.
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