2022年世界杯将在冬季举办？国际足联来辟谣

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，国际足联在官方网站上发表申明，2022年卡塔尔世界杯仍然将在夏季举行，国际足联并没有改变世界杯比赛日程的打算。

自从地处沙漠地区的卡塔尔获得了2022年世界杯主办权，关于在冬季举行世界杯的传言便不绝于耳。这期间，国际足联主席布拉特、欧足联主席普拉蒂尼、足球名宿贝肯鲍尔等人都表达过对这一想法的支持。冬季世界杯的传闻似乎有可能变为现实。

不过，昨天国际足联官网的声明一棒子敲醒了众多“做梦”的人，国际足联新闻官表示：“如果卡塔尔足协想要将2022年世界杯的时间由夏季改到冬季，那么卡塔尔足协必须提前向国际足联执行委员会提交申请。”

新闻官同时否定了卡塔尔要办冬季世界杯的传闻：“到目前为止，国际足联没有任何计划去改变世界杯比赛日程。”

记者从卡塔尔世界杯筹备委员会了解到的消息，卡塔尔也并没有在冬季举办世界杯的打算。“我们本来就是按照夏季世界杯进行申办和筹备的，这也是为什么我们提出了恒温球场。”卡塔尔世界杯筹备委员会媒体经理克里斯第那说。