Juventus have been given a partial stadium ban for his or her subsequent house sport within the Italian Cup after a few of their supporters directed racist chants at Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku.
Lukaku was sanctioned with a second yellow card for upsetting Juventus followers by holding his finger to his lips as if to silence the gang after changing a stoppage-time penalty to earn Inter a 1-1 draw within the first leg of the semi-finals on Tuesday.
The Belgian striker was suspended for the second leg of the semi-finals on April 26 by the Italian league choose on Thursday.
Lukaku’s gesture enraged the opposing group and the sport led to a scuffle between the 2 squads, with Juventus winger Juan Cuadrado and Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic additionally despatched off.
Cuadrado was banned for 3 matches whereas Handanovic was banned for one sport. Every participant was fined 10,000 euros ($A16,000).
A part of the southern finish of the Allianz Stadium can be closed for Juve’s first house sport in subsequent season’s Italian Cup.
Juventus mentioned it might collaborate with authorities to establish the followers accountable whereas Lukaku’s administration firm reacted with outrage to the yellow card handed to the middle ahead.
“The Italian authorities should use this chance to deal with racism, reasonably than punish the sufferer of the abuse,” Roc Nation Sports activities Worldwide president Michael Yormark mentioned.
Lukaku has been subjected to racist chants on quite a few events throughout his two stints at Inter.
The incident involving Lukaku comes amid an uptick in racism in European soccer following a lull throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Additionally on Thursday, Leipzig defender Benjamin Henrichs revealed hateful messages, together with racist abuse, that he had obtained on Instagram following his group’s 2-Zero win over Borussia Dortmund within the German Cup.
Henrichs posted a video on TikTok by which he referred to Wednesday’s victory and mentioned “I will present you what my DMs appear like,” earlier than displaying a collection of messages of threats and abuse in opposition to him and his household.
One message had solely monkey emojis, one other referred to as him the N-word, whereas one other threatened to “discover you and your loved ones.”
Again in Italy, Lazio had been additionally given a suspended partial stadium ban this week after a few of their followers directed anti-semitic chants at Roma throughout the metropolis derby final month.
The Serie A choose ordered the Curva Nord, the northern finish of the Stadio Olimpico the place Lazio’s hard-core “extremely” followers sit, to be closed for a sport however suspended the sentence in consideration of Lazio’s resolution handy out three lifetime bans to concerned spectators.
On Tuesday in Spain, Actual Madrid ahead Vinicius Junior testified in opposition to a Mallorca fan accused of racially insulting him at a Spanish league sport, saying he wouldn’t settle for an apology.
