The American midfielder Weston McKennie was subjected to racist abuse while playing for Juventus on Sunday evening, said the Italian club.
After their seasonal 2-0 win at home at Parma, Juventus posted a statement on social media and said that McKennie was the target of 'discriminatory racist comments by individuals in the road' while 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,” the team kept full.
McKennie, who came to Juventus in 2020, came up as a late replacement in the match in Turin, where Canada Vooruit Jonathan David scored in his Serie A debut.
The 26-year-old has earned 60 caps for USMNT since he made his international bow in 2017, scored 11 goals and plays on the World Cup 2022.
Serie A, the top competition in Italian football, has been marred for a number of years by racist singing from the stands, with various players who are subjected to abuse while they are on the field.
In 2023, Fiorentina was hit with a suspended partial stadium ban after fans racist and discriminatory songs directed at McKennie and other Juventus players.
In the same year, Inter Milan -Spits Romelu Lukaku sent in their Coppa Italia semi -final match against Juventus for provoking the audience after he was racially abused by rival fans, and nine months later AC Milan players walked short when goalkeeper Mike Maignan was aimed at Udinese supporters.
Sunday's incident is also the latter in a series of accusations of racism in European football as a whole.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino described last week two incidents of alleged racist abuse in German Cup matches as 'unacceptable'.
The comments from Infantino were in the aftermath of the Schalke's Christopher Antwi Adjei allegations was subjected to racist abuse in a cup match in Lokomotive Leipzig and a Kaiserslautern -replacement replacement while he warmed up in a match 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 exacerbated public order after Semenyo, who is black, reported to the referee that he was racistly abused by a spectator in the first half of the Bournemouth match against Liverpool in Anfield.