SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — There were thousands of empty seats scattered throughout Levi’s Stadium during Qatar’s surprising 1-1 draw with Switzerland on Saturday at the World Cup.
On an unseasonably warm June afternoon by Bay Area standards, with the temperature at kickoff around 82 degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius), many of those vacant seats were on the east side of the stadium that typically can get very hot for much of the year…