Paolo Maldini has spoken about the emotions that he felt after his son Daniel Maldini continued the family dynasty by making his senior debut for the Italian national team.
Monday was a magical night for the Maldini family as Daniel made his debut for the national team against Israel at the Stadio Friuli, the home of Udinese, in the stadium where his father Paolo had made his debut in Serie A with Milan as a blue-eyed teenager.
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He is the third Maldini to take to the field with the Azzurri jersey after his grandfather Cesare and father. Daniel Maldini is also at the centre of attention when it comes to the mercato too because his good form with Monza has led to reports of interest from Inter and Milan, who have a preferential clause.
Interviewed by TV12, Paolo Maldini confessed that he felt strong emotions after his son’s debut with the Azzurri as he watched on from the stands in Udine, and his comments were relayed by Calciomercato.com.
Paolo, what are your emotions?
“My career began here in Udine as a professional, I always come back very willingly. The emotions I experienced are those of a father, which are much stronger than those of playing football.”
What are your thoughts on Udinese, Milan’s next opponents?
“I have always considered Udinese one of the most physical teams ever and last year’s problems surprised me a lot. I think they have reached a status where they can aspire not only to achieving safety.”
And Lorenzo Lucca?
“He is a rare commodity, a centre forward from another era.”
we got rid of dis guy (and CDK!!!) to buy a chelsea benchwarmer. make it make sense
Okay – Maldini didn’t do much at Milan and CDK was horrible- one of the worst transfers of the last 20 years.
Poli was obsessed with a real Madrid player and cdk was passed.
No, he wasn’t. CDK had plenty of opportunities with Pioli and Milan; never did anything out of it. Good riddance. Stay at Atalanta, please.
from milan’s dna. i believe the club is good at stealing already made beautiful products than producing the products their self. that’s why talents can’t be developed at milan but more used at milan.
Horrible is your words and thoughts! Were you blind last season? Gasperini showed how to get play from CDK! What Pioli couldn’t do!
Maldini didn’t do much!? Yes! A team that could not go to the UCL for years, won the Scudetto; and many years has been in the UCL in a row!
Oh, ok! I’m sure you are blind…
Calm down Goofy – I was talking about Daniel…
Worse than chukwueze 🤣. Really??
At least because we finally saw that a good coach with great heads on his shoulders got the best out of CDK, not only that Milan would make some financial gains out it seeing that is the only thing this management is good for anyway.
But to call CDK the worst transfer of the last 20 years in Milan history. Man you must really be tired from. Work, and did not pay attention to what you were typing.
Because Reinjders, the afire mentioned chuk, Emerson, musah, terraciano, Jimenez, etc would love to beg to differ.
u mean scudetto squad w/ sort budget, salary cap & constantly under pressure from board to deliver instantly is “didn’t do much” aside from goal/assist CDK play better than Chuck if he’s in natural pos & he’s pefect as Morata backup w/ current formation