The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) is to lobby FIFA to implement time-outs during World Cup matches in Brazil next year, Italy coach Cesare Prandelli said Tuesday. FIGC is to make the proposal on Thursday in Costa do Sauipe ahead of Friday&#39;s World Cup draw in the same Brazilian town. <img alt="Cesare Prandelli" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/dec/Cesare-Prandelli.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 333px;" /> Italy&#39;s national football team coach Cesare Prandelli speaks to journalists on Tuesday in Rome. Pic/AFP &quot;I want to ask them to make two time-outs during the matches so the players can rehydrate,&quot; said Prandelli at a press conference in Rome. &quot;The are two big problems in Brazil, the same ones we encountered during the Confederations Cup in June: the heat and the humidity which, in certain towns, are worrying. &quot;If you want to offer a show to the world then you have to allow the players to be in a condition to offer up such a spectacle.&quot; Prandelli wants an official two-minute time-out to be called at the mid-point of each half to give players the chance to take fluids on board, otherwise he says they will be taking every opportunity at throw-ins and corners to rehydrate, which would upset the flow of games. Prandelli believes the proposition will find favour with &quot;all those (teams) who were at the Confederations Cup&quot; and who have already experienced the potentially difficult conditions in the country. The former Roma and Fiorentina coach said that during that competition &quot;eight out of 11&quot; players asked him to come off. &quot;That&#39;s a lot,&quot; added Prandelli.u00a0

 The Italian Football Federation and its national team coach Cesare Prandelli want FIFA to implement two-minute time-outs in each half during matches played with extreme heat or humidity at the World Cup in Brazil.

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