Juventus player Moise Kean suffered racial abuse from the stands during Tuesday’s match at Cagliari.
The 19-year-old held his arms aloft after scoring Juve’s second in their 2-0 win, seemingly in response to chants, and was subjected to further abuse.
Afterwards he wrote on Instagram: “The best way to respond to racism.”
Boss Massimiliano Allegri and defender Leonardo Bonucci said Kean should take some of the blame for his celebration.
However, in his post-match interview Allegri called the fans directing abuse at Kean, “idiots who do stupid things and ruin it for everyone else”.
He also said the authorities don’t really want to tackle the problem.
“You need great intelligence to deal with these situations and should not go to provoke people. That, of course, does not mean the idiots in the crowd and the way they reacted should be justified”.
“We need to use the cameras, find those who are doing it and punish them. It’s very simple, identify them and not one-year ban or two, just give them a lifetime ban. We’ve got the technology, it can be done if the authorities want to. The problem is, they don’t really want to”.
Uefa president wants referees to stop matches if there is racist abuse.
Kean’s Juventus teammate, Blaise Matuidi protested to the referee after the abuse and threatened to walk off.
Matuidi complained in 2018 he suffered racist abuse at the same stadium on the island of Sardinia.
The France midfielder later posted a photograph of himself and Kean on Instagram with the caption BIANCO + NERI (white and black) #NoToRacism.