The dream may have come to an end on Wednesday night but Gareth Bale predicted a bright future for the Welsh national team.

Optimists gave Wales a slim chance of exiting their Euro 2016 group consisting of England, Russia and Slovakia but no-one would gave guessed that Chris Coleman would lead his side to the semi-finals.

It was there that Wales were eliminated, Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani grabbing a goal each to send Portugal to the final.