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With additional than a million overseas visitors anticipated in the course of the month-lengthy tournament, a host nation will see a tourism spike, escalating sales for hoteliers, restaurateurs and the like. But such a surge demands extra capacity to be built, the expense of which is generally far bigger than the revenues generated short term. Qatar missed a chance to get on the board in the final seconds of the very first-half stoppage time when star forward Almoez Ali, alone at the edge of the six-yard box, mishit a header off a lengthy cross from Hassan Al-Haydos. That proved to...