{"id":28062,"date":"2025-08-25T06:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/juventus-condemns-racist-abuse-against-weston-mckennie-in-serie-a\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T06:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:07:30","slug":"juventus-condemns-racist-abuse-against-weston-mckennie-in-serie-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/juventus-condemns-racist-abuse-against-weston-mckennie-in-serie-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventus Condemns Racist Abuse Against Weston McKennie in Serie A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0825%2Fr1536405_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4351\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAmerican midfielder Weston McKennie was the victim of racist insults following Juventus&#8217; 2-0 victory over Parma in the opening Serie A matchday, the Italian club reported on Sunday.\n\nJuventus issued a statement on social media denouncing that McKennie was the target of &#8220;discriminatory racist comments by individuals in the visiting section&#8221; while doing cool-down exercises with his teammates on the field.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Juventus strongly condemns this incident and any form of racism, and will ensure full cooperation with sports justice authorities to identify those responsible,&#8221; the club said in its statement.<\/p><cite>Juventus<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nMcKennie, who joined Juventus in 2020, came on as a substitute in the match played in Turin, where Canadian striker Jonathan David scored on his Serie A debut for Juventus.\n\nIn 2023, Fiorentina received a partially suspended stadium ban after their fans directed racist and discriminatory chants against McKennie and other Juventus players.\n\nThe incident on Sunday adds to a series of racism allegations in European football.\n\nFIFA President Gianni Infantino last week called two incidents of alleged racist abuse that marred German Cup matches &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American midfielder Weston McKennie was the victim of racist insults following Juventus&#8217; 2-0 victory over Parma in the opening Serie A matchday, the Italian club reported on Sunday. Juventus issued a statement on social media denouncing that McKennie was the target of &#8220;discriminatory racist comments by individuals in the visiting section&#8221; while doing cool-down exercises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4049,2277,147,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-28062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-juventus","9":"tag-racism","10":"tag-serie-a","11":"tag-weston-mckennie"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}