Friday June 14, 2019 02:27 AM A year on from hosting the World Cup, Russia is boasting the biggest club crowds since Soviet days, but there are clouds on the horizon Written by By JAMES ELLINGWORTH, AP Sports Writer MOSCOW (AP) — A year after hosting the World Cup, Russia is boasting the biggest club soccer crowds since Soviet days and participation at the amateur level is on the rise. Still, there are signs of trouble for the sport. Fans are concerned about efforts to bring tight World Cup security measures to domestic games, and the shiny new arenas attracting fans can be a financial burden for the state. There’s a big rise in the number of Russians playing amateur soccer or sending their children to academies. That includes a spike in interest in women’s soccer, though the women’s World Cup in France is all but invisible in Russian media. BIGGER CROWDS New arenas and the afterglow of the World Cup helped raise average Russian Premier League attendances to 16,817 per game for the 2018-19 season. That’s the most since 1989, when Russian clubs made up less than half of the old Soviet top league. Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia is…