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(guó)際足聯(lián)在官方網(wǎng)站上發(fā)表申明，2022年卡塔爾世界杯仍然將在夏季舉行，國(guó)際足聯(lián)并沒(méi)有改變世界杯比賽日程的打算。

自從地處沙漠地區(qū)的卡塔爾獲得了2022年世界杯主辦權(quán)，關(guān)于在冬季舉行世界杯的傳言便不絕于耳。這期間，國(guó)際足聯(lián)主席布拉特、歐足聯(lián)主席普拉蒂尼、足球名宿貝肯鮑爾等人都表達(dá)過(guò)對(duì)這一想法的支持。冬季世界杯的傳聞似乎有可能變?yōu)楝F(xiàn)實(shí)。

不過(guò)，昨天國(guó)際足聯(lián)官網(wǎng)的聲明一棒子敲醒了眾多“做夢(mèng)”的人，國(guó)際足聯(lián)新聞官表示：“如果卡塔爾足協(xié)想要將2022年世界杯的時(shí)間由夏季改到冬季，那么卡塔爾足協(xié)必須提前向國(guó)際足聯(lián)執(zhí)行委員會(huì)提交申請(qǐng)?！?/span>

新聞官同時(shí)否定了卡塔爾要辦冬季世界杯的傳聞：“到目前為止，國(guó)際足聯(lián)沒(méi)有任何計(jì)劃去改變世界杯比賽日程?！?br>

記者從卡塔爾世界杯籌備委員會(huì)了解到的消息，卡塔爾也并沒(méi)有在冬季舉辦世界杯的打算?！拔覀儽緛?lái)就是按照夏季世界杯進(jìn)行申辦和籌備的，這也是為什么我們提出了恒溫球場(chǎng)?！笨ㄋ柺澜绫I備委員會(huì)媒體經(jīng)理克里斯第那說(shuō)。

（中文新聞?wù)跃W(wǎng)易體育）