The Women’s World Cup started this Thursday, the 20th, and according to Bia Zaneratto, a striker for Palmeiras and the Brazilian national team, the group “is enough to be champions”. The athlete told Betfair exclusively about the details of the preparations for the debut of the Selection.
“We are going to arrive to be champions, you can’t think differently”
Bia Zaneratto revealed to be very confident in the campaign of the Brazilian National Team for the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
According to the Empress of Palmeiras, the team is very well prepared and will use the Brazilian tradition in football in their favor.
“We start the World Cup on an equal footing with everyone, and just the fact of wearing Amarelinha is already a great motivation for us”, said Bia.
The Brazilian team has its first match scheduled for the 24th, at 8 am (Brasília time), against Panama.
Then they face France, on the 29th, and close the first phase against Jamaica, on the 2nd of August.
Although it is considered a huge favorite against Panama with a 99% chance of winning, according to Betfair‘s analysis, Brazil will not have an easy life in the dispute for the leadership of group F.
The reason is France, Brazil’s executioner in the 2019 Women’s World Cup, which is considered by specialists in probabilities as the main candidate for the first place in the group, with a 60% chance, against 37% for Brazil.
However, for Bia, the story and the game are different. “There are three teams of great quality, especially France, which we know very well. But we’re going to get there to be champions, you can’t think differently”.
“We are well prepared, the friendlies gave us confidence, we have the positive energy of the fans and we believe more and more that it is possible”, said Bia Zaneratto in an interview with Betfair.
With only a 2% chance, Brazil’s title can earn bettors a hefty sum
According to analysis by Betfair, a specialist in sports odds, the US team, four times world champion, is the team with the most title favorites in 2023.
In all, there are 22% chances of the North Americans lifting their fifth Women’s World Cup cup.
The Brazilian team has only a 2% chance of winning the title, according to the analysis.
This represents an odd of 31.0 that is, for every BRL 1 bet, the return to the bettor will be BRL 31 if Brazil wins the competition in an unprecedented way.
Check out the top favorites in the list below:
- USA – 22% title chance (odd 3.5)
- England – 16% (5.0)
- Spain – 13% (6.0)
- Germany – 10% (8.0)
- Austrália – 8% (9.5)
- França – 6% (12.0)
- Suécia – 5% (17.0)
- Holanda – 4% (21.0)
- Brasil – 2% (31.0)
Marta with a 70% chance of expanding her artillery in World Cups
With 17 goals in 20 World Cup matches, Marta is the top scorer in the history of the women’s competition.
And even at the age of 37 and on the bench, returning to the fields after an injury to his left knee, there are great chances that the Brazilian striker will make history again in this edition.
According to Betfair’s analysis, Marta has a 70% probability of scoring at least one goal at any time during the tournament.
Bia Zaneratto, who is looking for a chance to start in the match against Panama, commented on the importance of Marta, six times voted the best in the world.
“It is a very special moment for us to be able to be part of this with Marta, she is an outstanding person and professional”.
“We know the importance of all the titles she has won individually, but she always tells people that she would trade them all for a World Cup”.
“So I think that all of us, who will have the opportunity to be there, will do everything to crown this brilliant career that she had with the World title”, said Bia exclusively to Betfair.
Since the last World Cup in 2019, Brazilian women’s football has evolved a lot, but there is still much more to evolve, according to Bia Zaneratto.
According to the striker for Palmeiras and the Brazilian national team, winning the World Cup is essential for the future of the sport in the country.
For Bia, Brazil’s title would bring more space and opportunities to girls in football
“We are on the way to having a better structure and we hope that later on, with the winning of a World Cup, we can gain much greater relevance”.
“We talk a lot about seeking this achievement to have more recognition, more space, a greater development of the modality in Brazil”.
Conquering to be able to fight for much more, we know that such an achievement would give us more voice, to have more and more space and a much better consistency”.
“We take the United States as an example, which is a powerhouse, the structure that exists there is a reference and we see very young girls already having opportunities to do what they love, which is playing soccer”, concluded Bia to Betfair.
Betfair supports Brazilian women’s football
Sponsor of Cruzeiro and Palmeiras in women’s football, Betfair has been helping both clubs to reach new heights in the sport.
On the Alviverde side, where Betfair appears as the master sponsor, the club won two titles in the first year of partnership (Libertadores and Campeonato Paulista Feminino in 2022).
Already as Cruzeiro’s new sponsor since January, stamping the upper back of the Cabulosas squad in a newly developed project, the team from Minas Gerais concluded its participation by winning an eighth place in the Brazilian Women’s Championship, being eliminated in the round of 16.
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