Juventus should play its subsequent Serie A match with no full stadium. An Italian sports activities decide has ordered the membership to shut sections of Allianz Stadium for its subsequent residence recreation after some followers directed racist chants at Inter Milan’s Romelu Lukaku on Tuesday.
After scoring the game-tying purpose late in Tuesday’s match, Lukaku was issued a crimson card for taunting opposing followers. However, he alleged that followers in these sections had taunted him with racial abuse all through the sport.
Michael Yormark, the President of Roc Nation Sports International, which represents Lukaku, launched an announcement during which it claimed the striker obtained racial abuse “earlier than, throughout and after” his tying purpose. The assertion additionally demanded an apology from Juventus.
As a results of the decide’s ruling, Juventus will probably be compelled to shut its Tribuna Sud part, which is the place the racist taunts have been stated to have originated. Serie A launched an announcement explaining why that exact part was the goal of the partial stadium closure.
“The supporters of Juventus occupying the primary tier of the sector referred to as the ‘tribuna sud’, through the thirty fifth and forty ninth minutes of the second half shouted vulgar and insulting choruses and shouts of racial discrimination in opposition to the participant of Internazionale Romelu Lukaku,” Serie A stated in an announcement.
Juventus’ subsequent residence match in opposition to a Serie A opponent will come on April 23 when the membership takes on Napoli.
