The Monza striker, last in the Italian championship after six days, would become the third Maldini to wear the colors of the ‘Nazionale’ if coach Luciano Spalletti played him, after his father Paolo (56 years old) and his grandfather Cesare Maldini, who died in 2016.
Aged 22, Daniel Maldini stood out in the colors of Monza where he was loaned and then sold last summer by AC Milan, of which his father and grandfather were captains.
Luciano Spalletti also called up three new players: Juventus goalkeeper Michele Di Gregorio, AS Roma midfielder Niccolo Pisilli and AC Milan defender Matteo Gabbiawho scored the winning goal in the derby against Inter (2-1) on September 24.
Pisilli was called up due to the unavailability of Nicolo Barellathe star midfielder of Inter, victim of a thigh strain. Italy will host Belgium on Thursday in Rome, then Israel in Udine on October 14.
The Italian group:
Guardians: Michele Di Gregorio (Juventus), Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris Saint-Germain/FRA), Guglielmo Vicario (Tottenham Hotspur/ENG)
Defenders: Alessandro Bastoni (Inter Milan), Raoul Bellanova (Atalanta), Alessandro Buongiorno (Naples), Riccardo Calafiori (Arsenal/ENG), Andrea Cambiaso (Juventus), Giovanni Di Lorenzo (Naples), Federico Dimarco (Inter Milan), Matteo Gabbia ( AC Milan), Caleb Okoli (Leicester City/ENG), Destiny Udogie (Tottenham Hotspur/ENG)
Backgrounds: Nicolo Fagioli (Juventus), Davide Frattesi (Inter Milan), Lorenzo Pellegrini (AS Rome), Niccolo Pisilli (AS Rome), Samuele Ricci (Turin), Sandro Tonali (Newcastle United/ENG)
Attackers: Moise Kean (Fiorentina), Daniel Maldini (Monza), Giacomo Raspadori (Naples), Mateo Retegui (Atalanta)
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