Maldini's crash could cost him his Italy place

The basics are confirmed. BBC Sport reports Daniel Maldini's licence was suspended after a car crash in Milan, with the incident happening around the current international window. That alone would be an awkward story for any player. What's turned it into a bigger one is GiveMeSport's follow-up, which says fresh details from the crash have emerged and could open the door to disciplinary action from the Italy national team.

Neither outlet spells out exactly what those fresh details are. GiveMeSport frames it as a possibility rather than a done deal, and there's no confirmation yet that the FIGC has opened a formal disciplinary process against the Fiorentina forward. What is clear is that a licence suspension tied to a road incident is now sitting alongside his international career, and that's the kind of story a federation doesn't get to ignore even if it moves slowly.

Maldini's route back into the Italy squad

Maldini has spent the past couple of seasons building himself back into Italy contention after a career that stalled and restarted more than once at club level. Getting into Luciano Spalletti's plans, then Gennaro Gattuso's, was the hard part. An off-pitch incident landing mid-window is the kind of distraction a squad on the fringes of a national team can least afford, because selection conversations rarely wait around for legal ones.

There's also the Maldini name attached to all of this, whether anyone wants it there or not. Daniel is the son of Paolo Maldini and grandson of Cesare Maldini, both Italy internationals themselves, and any story involving that surname gets read differently by Italian media than it would for almost anyone else in the squad.

Where the FIGC stands

For now this is a licence suspension with a report suggesting consequences, not a confirmed ban. The FIGC hasn't been quoted opening any process, and GiveMeSport's own framing keeps this at the level of possibility. Until there's an official statement from the federation or further detail on what actually happened on the road in Milan, the honest version of this story is: Maldini can't legally drive right now, and Italy have a decision to make that nobody's made public yet.