{"id":28302,"date":"2025-08-26T05:10:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/juventus-condemns-racism-against-mckennie-serie-a-again-in-the-crosshairs\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T05:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:10:37","slug":"juventus-condemns-racism-against-mckennie-serie-a-again-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/juventus-condemns-racism-against-mckennie-serie-a-again-in-the-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventus Condemns Racism Against McKennie: Serie A Again in the Crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Weston McKennie, victim of racism after Juventus match<\/h2>\n\nAmerican midfielder Weston McKennie was subjected to racist insults following Juventus&#8217; 2-0 victory over Parma in the Serie A season opener, the Italian club reported on Sunday.\n\nJuventus issued a statement on social media stating that McKennie was the target of &#8220;discriminatory racist comments from some individuals in the away section&#8221; while warming up with his teammates on the field.\n\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 stated in its statement.<\/p><cite>Juventus<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/juventusfcen\/status\/1959742172816699492\" target=\"_blank\">Official statement from Juventus.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0825%2Fr1536405_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nMcKennie, who joined Juventus in 2020, came on as a substitute in the match in Turin, where Canadian forward Jonathan David scored on his Serie A debut for Juventus.\n\nIn 2023, Fiorentina was sanctioned with a suspended partial stadium ban after fans directed racist and discriminatory chants against McKennie and other Juventus players.\n\nThe incident on Sunday is the latest in a series of racism accusations in European football.\n\nFIFA President Gianni Infantino last week described two incidents of alleged racist abuse that marred German Cup matches as &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weston McKennie, victim of racism after Juventus match American midfielder Weston McKennie was subjected to racist insults following Juventus&#8217; 2-0 victory over Parma in the Serie A season opener, the Italian club reported on Sunday. Juventus issued a statement on social media stating that McKennie was the target of &#8220;discriminatory racist comments from some individuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[4049,2277,147,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-28302","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\/28302","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=28302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}