{"id":371290,"date":"2025-08-25T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371290\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:00:18","slug":"juventus-says-usmnts-weston-mckennie-was-target-of-racial-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/371290\/","title":{"rendered":"Juventus Says USMNT&#8217;s Weston McKennie Was Target of Racial Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/united-states-men-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. men&#8217;s national team<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/juventus-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juventus<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/weston-mckennie-player\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weston McKennie<\/a> was the target of racist remarks during Sunday&#8217;s game in Italy against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/parma-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">McKennie was training with his Juventus teammates after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/serie-a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serie A<\/a> game when the incident took place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">The USMNT midfielder came on as a substitute in the 89th minute of the 2-0 win. In a statement, the club added that it had reported the incident to the authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">McKennie was the target of racial abuse last season as well. Following a Coppa Italia match against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/lazio-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lazio<\/a> in April, Juventus said it was launching an investigation against Lazio fans for racist remarks against the player. In November 2024, McKennie and several of his teammates were subject to abuse by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/fiorentina-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fiorentina<\/a> fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">McKennie has been at Juventus since 2021, which included a brief loan to English club Leeds United in 2023. With Juve, he has 151 appearances and 13 goals but has often been linked to a move away from Italy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-f4e318d2=\"\">McKennie is expected to be part of the U.S. squad for the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/fifa-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n        What did you think of this story?\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 1<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/840.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"United States\" class=\"team-logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/> Get more from the United States Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. men&#8217;s national team and Juventus midfielder Weston McKennie was the target of racist remarks during Sunday&#8217;s game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-371290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115087174746225606","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}