FIFA World Cup Betting: Greek soccer was never really first and foremost in the minds of fans of the world's most popular sport until 2004, when they captured the European championship. It seems as though that was more of a flash in the pan than anything else, but Greece will try to rekindle that fire in South Africa and beat the World Cup odds that are surely stacked against them.

Truth be told, Greece knows that it is only in the World Cup because it was placed in an incredibly easy qualifying group that featured a ton of squads that weren't World Cup caliber. Still, it took a playoff victory against Ukraine to even reach World Cup betting action this year.

F Dimitrios Salpingidis scored the World Cup clinching goal in Donetsk in the second stage of the home-and-home with Ukraine. He will be paired with F Theofanis Gekas, who not only led the team in scoring during qualifying, but also led all of Europe with ten goals in as many matches leading up to the World Cup. In just 46 CAPS, Gekas has netted 20 goals for his country.

Somehow, Greece is going to have to find some offense, whether it comes from Salpingidis, Gekas, or someone from the midfield or off of the bench. This is a group with a bunch of high flying teams, and trying to play 0-0 and 1-0 matches probably isn't going to cut it. There's a reason that the Euro 2004 champs are +15000 to win it all and are the longest shots on the board at +700 to win Group B in the World Cup odds.