Three other Maldini examples after latest Italy squad announcement

Daniel Maldini, son of the legendary Milan and Azzurri defender Paolo and grandson of the great Cesare, has been included in Luciano Spalletti’s latest Italy national team squad, meaning that there is a third member of the same family in-line for an international cap for the first time in the nation’s history.

Here are three other examples of families with three members who have represented the same international side.

Three other ‘Maldini’ examples

Arnor, Eidur and Andri Gudjohnsen 

Three members of the Gudjohnsen family have previously represented Iceland. Former Chelsea striker Eidur famously replaced his father when coming on for his first international cap back in 1996.

Eidur’s son Andri is also a 27-time Iceland international and played against his father’s former club, Chelsea, in the Europa League with Gent on Thursday.

Marquitos, Marcos and Marcos Alonso

Former Chelsea and Barcelona defender Marcos Alonso also has plenty of footballing heritage in his family. His father, also named Marcos, earned 22 caps for Spain between 1981 and 1985.

Marcos Alonso’s grandfather, commonly referred to as Marquitos, was a five-time European Cup winner with Real Madrid in the 1950s and also won two international caps in friendlies in 1955 and 1960.

Vladimir Weiss x3

Three generations of players named Vladimir Weiss have also represented Slovakia and the former state of Czechoslovakia. The youngest, still starring for Slovan Bratislava, recently started against Manchester City in the Champions League and has 77 international caps to his name.

Vladimir Weiss II represented both Slovakia and Czechoslovakia in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and previously managed his son as head coach of the Slovakia national team. They still work together at the moment, as Weiss the second is currently head coach of Slovan Bratislava.

Weiss Sr. also had three international caps with Czechoslovakia in the mid-1960s.