Crowds in Moscow make Qatar rethink 2022 World Cup plans

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SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Martin Rogers breaks down the upcoming semifinal round of the World Cup. MOSCOW (AP) — The big numbers of Latin American fans who came to Russia are making 2022 World Cup organizers rethink their own plans for Qatar. Tens of thousands of people gathered in central Moscow even when their team was not playing. The much smaller city of Doha would be packed for the tournament's first two weeks in November 2022 if the same occurred. In the streets around Red Square, fans from Peru, Mexico and Argentina were a vibrant presence from days before the World Cup started. "What we saw in Moscow, which has two stadiums, is that a city can be very quickly overwhelmed by big crowds,"

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