Fans with game tickets will be offered free ground transportation between host cities at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

據雅虎新聞報道，2018年俄羅斯世界杯期間，球迷持球票即可免費享受主辦城市間的陸上交通旅行。

''Free travel is a guarantee which we signed at the highest level during our bid,'' Alexey Sorokin, head of the organizing committee, said Saturday in Rio de Janeiro.

“免費交通政策是我們申辦世界杯時做出的最大承諾，”俄組委會主席阿列克謝-索羅金周六在里約熱內盧表示。

He said the free travel would be by train or bus.

這項政策將涵蓋火車和公交系統。

Though games will played only in the western part of Russia, it still could mean some long trips.

盡管比賽只會在俄羅斯西部舉行，但一些長途旅行在所難免。

Travel has been challenging - and expensive - at the last three major football tournaments, including this World Cup in Brazil, the 2012 European championship, and South Africa's 2010 World Cup.

''We'll come up with a very complicated system of using tickets to the game as tickets to a certain means of transportation,'' Sorokin said.

而最近三大足球賽事（本屆巴西世界杯，2012年的歐錦賽以及2010年的南非世界杯）期間，旅行總是又難又貴。索羅金透露，俄會想出一套復雜的系統，將球票同時用于交通運輸。

Russia will use 11 cities - and 12 stadium venues - ranging from Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg in the north to Sochi in the south and Yekaterinburg in the east.

俄羅斯屆時會動用11個城市，12座體育場，跨越從北部的柯尼斯堡、圣彼得堡到南部的索契，東部的葉卡捷琳堡等地區。

Sorokin acknowledged he had never traveled vast distances on a bus or train in Russia. He estimated a train trip between Moscow and Sochi would be about 18 hours. He said several high-speed trains were currently operating in Russia, and said more might be ready in four years.

索羅金坦言，自己從未乘公交或是火車在俄羅斯長途跋涉過。據他估計，乘火車在莫斯科和索契間旅行大概要18個小時。俄羅斯目前已有數列高速火車在運行，而未來四年內數量還會增多。

''We'll see how it will be implemented and what might be on time for the World Cup,'' he said.

Sorokin said Russian organizers proposed to FIFA that teams play their three group games in two adjoining clusters of venues, which would eliminate the kind of country-wide travel prevalent in Brazil. He said no times for starting matches had been proposed yet to FIFA.

他還稱，俄已向國際足聯提議，球隊可以在兩組鄰近的體育場踢自己的三場小組賽，這樣就可避免巴西隨處可見的全國范圍大旅行。之前國際足聯從未收到過這樣的提議。

He said hotel prices would be controlled, which is a problem Brazil has failed to control.

巴西另一個沒能解決的難題就是酒店價格。索羅金表示，俄將會對此進行控制。

''The government of Russia has the power to interfere with hotel prices once it sees that the situation is getting out of control,'' Sorokin said. ''We used that in Sochi (Winter Olympics), and we will use that in the World Cup.''

“一旦情況出現失控，俄政府有能力干涉酒店價格，”他說，“我們之前在索契冬奧會時就這么做過，到世界杯時也將如此。”

Sorokin deflected questions about Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. He said tourists would be ''well informed and not afraid to come'' to Russia.

而在俄羅斯吞并烏克蘭黑海的克里米亞半島問題上，索羅金有所回避，只表示游客會對局勢了如指掌，不會害怕赴俄。

''Tourists will come to Russia to see the matches of the World Cup,'' he said. ''They will not come to discuss political developments, which by then will be all in the past.''

“游客來俄羅斯是要觀看世界杯球賽，”他說，“他們不會過來討論政治進展，到那時候，現在這些問題都已經成為歷史了。”

（譯者 魚麗之宴 編輯 齊磊）