It proved enough to see off a talented Portugal team and extend the under-21s' unbeaten run to four qualifying games.
It sealed Switzerland's first win in three European Championship appearances, albeit against a Portugal team that rested eight starters including Cristiano Ronaldo and Deco.
He pioneered new ways of doing market research, then ran sales in Portugal, where his team broke sales records.
Ronaldo overshadows his team, so Portugal coach Paulo Bento was careful to spread credit to the rest of the side for the win, trying not to heap praise on by far the brightest star on the field.
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Things looked fairly desperate for the 7, 000 travelling Everton fans, seeing their team playing competitively in Portugal for the first time.
For instance, Adidas is sponsoring Spain, a team which is expected to go to the semi-final round, and Nike, besides backing Portugal, is also sponsoring the No. 1 team, Brazil.
For Portugal, this was a heartbreaking loss for a team that got as close as anyone to toppling Spain's dynasty.
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Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz made four changes to the team from Monday with Pepe and Ricardo Costa coming into defence, and Danny and Duda in midfield.
There are nine leagues that are sending enough players to make up a whole team- the Big Four plus France, Russia, Portugal, Ukraine and Greece.
The team's reserve drivers will be GP2 drivers Alvaro Parente of Portugal and Luiz Razia of Brazil.
"Finland is when it (the training) all starts again in earnest, " said Hamilton, whose Finnish team-mate Heikki Kovalainen will be testing again in Spain and Portugal this month after the camp in his home country.
His time with Switzerland drew worldwide notice as the team qualified for the 1994 World Cup from a group including Italy and Portugal, and rose to third in the FIFA world rankings.
Its banking and money team have highlighted how the weaker eurozone economies - Spain, Italy, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Ireland - have been progressively starved of credit as banks in the bigger, stronger economies of Germany and France have stopped lending to them.
Contador will compete for his new Saxo Bank team in the Tour of Algarve, a five-stage race through southern Portugal.
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Portugal's hopes of automatic qualification from Group F suffered a big blow as Cristiano Ronaldo's team needed late goals from Helder Postiga and Fabio Coentrao to draw 3-3 in Israel.
With Portugal already through to the quarterfinals as Group A winners, and the Swiss eliminated after two defeats, neither team had anything apart from pride to play for.
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