2022年世界盃將在冬季舉辦？國際足聯來闢謠

FIFIA has quashed talk of a winter World Cup in 2022, saying it has no plans to change the international calendar and that any switch of dates would have to be proposed by the Qatari hosts.

Qatarhas already said it wants to stage the tournament in the summer as presented in its bid. "Any potential move of the 2022 FIFA World Cup from a summer to a winter period would have to be initiated by the football association of Qatar and would have to be presented to the FIFA Executive Committee," FIFA said in a statement.

"At this stage there are no concrete plans to change the international match calendar."

The statement appeared to mark a U-turn by football's governing body as the FIFA president Sepp Blatter said this month that he expected the tournament to be staged in the winter.

Blatter's comments echoed those of other leading figures, including the UEFA president Michel Platini, who even suggested that Qatar could co-host the event with some of its neighbours.

However, Mohammed Bin Hammam, the Qatari president of the Asian Football Confederation, said the 2022 World Cup hosts would resist efforts to reschedule the tournament. "We submitted a bid suggesting we are going to be ready in June and July. And we said we are going to face all the challenges and we are going to meet all the requirements," Bin Hammam told Sky News last week. "Our focus is June, July. It is never our interest to change one week beyond June and July."

昨天，國際足聯在官方網站上發表申明，2022年卡塔爾世界盃仍然將在夏季舉行，國際足聯並沒有改變世界盃比賽日程的打算。

自從地處沙漠地區的卡塔爾獲得了2022年世界盃主辦權，關於在冬季舉行世界盃的傳言便不絕於耳。這期間，國際足聯主席布拉特、歐足聯主席普拉蒂尼、足球名宿貝肯鮑爾等人都表達過對這一想法的支持。冬季世界杯的傳聞似乎有可能變爲現實。

不過，昨天國際足聯官網的聲明一棒子敲醒了衆多“做夢”的人，國際足聯新聞官表示：“如果卡塔爾足協想要將2022年世界盃的時間由夏季改到冬季，那麼卡塔爾足協必須提前向國際足聯執行委員會提交申請。”

新聞官同時否定了卡塔爾要辦冬季世界杯的傳聞：“到目前爲止，國際足聯沒有任何計劃去改變世界盃比賽日程。”

記者從卡塔爾世界盃籌備委員會了解到的消息，卡塔爾也並沒有在冬季舉辦世界盃的打算。“我們本來就是按照夏季世界盃進行申辦和籌備的，這也是爲什麼我們提出了恆溫球場。”卡塔爾世界盃籌備委員會媒體經理克里斯第那說。