One year from Euro 2024, Gianluigi Donnarumma, 24, could be promoted to captain of the Italian selection by the new coach, Luciano Spalletti.
At only 24 years old, Gianluigi Donnarumma already has 54 caps with Italy and the Nazionale and PSG goalkeeper could be promoted to captain by Luciano Spalletti, the new coach. A decision will be made concerning the captaincy, while the Azzurri face North Macedonia and Ukraine, this Saturday and next Tuesday, in the Euro qualifiers (a victory and a defeat for the moment for them).
In the absence of Leonardo Bonucci, the captain in recent years, who has not been called up (he did not play with Juventus before joining Union Berlin), Roberto Mancini’s successor hesitates between Ciro Immobile and “Gigio” Donnarumma, the two most capped players in the squad. Giovanni Di Lorenzo is also a trusted man of Spalletti, his former coach at Napoli.
Immobile is now in competition for the position of center forward in the transalpine eleven, with a Giacomo Raspadori who could start, so it is Donnarumma who could end up with the armband in the next two matches. The hero of the European champions in 2021 has already worn the armband in place of Bonucci during the match for 3rd place in the League of Nations against the Netherlands, last June.
