The American midfielder Weston McKennie was subjected to racist abuse after Juventus had completed a 2-0 seasonal victory over Parma in the Serie A, the Italian club said Sunday.
Juventus posted a statement on social media and said that McKennie was the target of «discriminatory, racist comments in the road section» while he was warming up with teammates on the field.
«Juventus strongly condemns this incident and any form of racism, and will ensure full cooperation with the sporting justice authorities to identify those responsible,» Juventus said in the statement.
McKennie, who came to Juventus in 2020, continued as a late replacement in the match in Turin, where Canada Vooruit Jonathan David scored in his Serie A debut for Juventus.
In 2023, Fiorentina was hit with a suspended partial stadium ban after fans racist and discriminatory songs directed at McKennie and other Juventus players.
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Sunday’s incident is the latter in a series of accusations of racism in European football.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino described last week two incidents of alleged racist abuse that disrupted German cup matches as ‘unacceptable’.
The comments from Infantino were in the aftermath of accusations that Schalke’s Christopher Antwi-Adjei was subjected to racist abuse in a cup match in Lokomotive Leipzig, and a Kaiserslauter replacement was racially abused while warming up in a game at RSV Eintract.
The British police arrested a man on suspicion of racial abuse of Bournemouth attacker Antoine Semenyo during a Premier League match on August 16.
The man was arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order after Semenyo, who is black, reported to the referee that he was racially abused by a spectator in the first half of Bournemouth’s match against Liverpool in Anfield.
Published on August 25, 2025
