Natal: Four-time champions Italy admitted they are struggling with the weather conditions ahead of their clash with Uruguay in Natal today where they will try to avoid being eliminated in the first round at successive World Cups.


Italy's players during a training session at the Abc Frasqueiro Stadium in Natal. Pic/AFP 

A win for the South Americans would send Cesare Prandelli's side crashing out at the first hurdle, four years after bowing out at the group stage as then world champions in South Africa.