Only a superb save from Simoncini kept out his 18-yard drive, but the 20-year-old was soon celebrating his first goal for Wales.

BBC: San Marino 1-2 Wales

Not even a second yellow card for home defender Nicola Albani five minutes helped their cause, although Bellamy did force another fine save from Simoncini in injury time.

BBC: San Marino 1-2 Wales

The first was correctly ruled out for offside but he was unfortunate for the second on 34 minutes when his challenge on Simoncini was penalised as the goalkeeper fumbled a looping cross.

BBC: San Marino 1-2 Wales

They include such figures as Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet of Priceminister, Marc Simoncini of Meetic, and Xavier Niel of Iliad, who launched Free, a telecoms firm, from nothing to take on the established giants.

ECONOMIST: France

Bellamy fired the first warning shot when he forced Aldo Simoncini to save low down, and then Earnshaw lifted Welsh spirits a minute later as he broke the deadlock with his first shot on goal.

BBC: San Marino 1-2 Wales

Last December ten times as many came and on the stage were plenty of Europeans, including Marten Mickos of MySQL, a maker of databases now owned by Oracle, a software giant, Marc Simoncini, founder of meetic.com, Europe's largest dating site, and Niklas Zennstrom, who started Skype.

ECONOMIST: Europe's tech entrepreneurs