Daniel Maldini and Niccolò Pisilli have been called up by Luciano Spalletti for the match against Belgium and Israel. First historic pre-call-up for the son of Paolo Maldini, Cesare’s nephew: three generations in the national team, although it will then be necessary to understand whether he will eventually be fielded by the coach or whether he will be left out of the list of players called up. Also included is the Roma player, scorer of the winning goal in yesterday’s match against Venezia, launched by De Rossi and confirmed by the new coach Ivan Juric.
Maldini’s call-up comes despite the Brianza team’s difficult momentwho came out without points yesterday too, against first-place Napoli. Maldini has played six league games so far, scoring one goal. Instead of playing four games, Pisilli made four appearances after his taste of the first team last season.
These are the words of Luciano Spalletti to Sportmediaset. “There are some really strong young people who are growing and who are showing that Italy can have an important future. Those two names are on the list of pre-summits, we have already given them, and naturally we are pleased that there are new forces that they can then come and make a contribution to what will be the difficulty of putting things right after an uninspiring European championship.”