2022 WORLD CUP WINNER ODDS

France +110
Argentina +170
Croatia +750
Morocco +900

France and Argentina are heavily favored in the semis.

Interestingly, Croatia and Morocco are the two undefeated teams, but are the underdogs with the longest odds. Argentina lost that shocker to Saudi Arabia in pool play. France did also drop a game (to Tunisia) in pool play, but they didn’t make an effort to win that game. They had already clinched a spot in the elimination rounds, so they rested their starters against Tunisia.

Croatia and Morocco have already played each other in the tournament. They were in the same pool, and drew. Morocco won its other two games to win the pool, while Croatia finished with a win and two draws.

SIDEBAR: The country of Croatia has fewer than four million people, a small pool to draw a great national team from.

Man, those extra-curricular activities have sure changed since I was a youngster. We had a checkers club and cub scouts.

I taught high school when I was a young man, and I was the moderator of The Divine Right of Kings Club. The group was small since membership was restricted to those who had the divine right to rule. I’m not kidding. A bunch of the honors kids created the club and even applied to use the school’s display window for a week, which was their right. The display included things like Richard Lionheart, people wearing the Imperial Margarine crown, and club members wearing cheesy five-and-dime crowns like the ones in Halloween costumes. They had custom signs painted up, and had all the pics surrounded by those tiny Christmas lights. Pretty creative.

I was also in charge of the morning announcements, and I let the kids mix all sorts of bogus items, including various DRoK activities, in with the real news. They actually persuaded at least one kid to ask where he could buy tickets to the Underwater Formal.