Moise Kean was he still the target of racist slippages, Thursday night once morest Naples (1-1), in a match counting for the 20th day of Serie A? Came into play in the 75th minute in place of Alvaro Morata, the Juventus striker, would have been taken to task by the visitor parking at the Allianz Stadium in Turin. A sequence seems to confirm this with quite audible sounds emanating from the stands on one of the first balls touched by the former PSG player.
In France, the commentators of beIN Sports, which broadcast the meeting, alluded to this episode live by regretting “things that we do not like to hear”. The subject has not at all been relayed by the major transalpine sports media since the end of the meeting. He did not give rise to any post-match reaction among the players or coaches of the two clubs. The 21-year-old Italian international has not commented on any incident on his social media either.
Maignan already targeted in September 2021
Currently on loan to Turin by Everton, Moise Kean had already been targeted by racist insults in 2019, at the time in the company of Blaise Matuidi, during a Championship meeting disputed in Cagliari. The Sardinian club had not been sanctioned. This season, Kean has scored three goals in 13 Serie A games, where Juventus are in fifth place.
Such reprehensible acts are unfortunately not isolated in Serie A. The last seasons – with the exception of the 2020-2021 financial year, which was played almost entirely behind closed doors – have been punctuated by regular incidents during league meetings in Italy, especially with the trivialization of “monkey cries”. On September 21, 2021, Mike Maignan, the French international of AC Milan, was the victim of racist cries before a match once morest Juventus.
If Italian clubs regularly try to reason with their supporters with anti-racism campaigns, players are also increasingly speaking out to denounce the insults they are subjected to. Maignan had expressed himself on Instagram: “As long as we treat these events as isolated incidents and that we do not have a global action, history is bound to repeat itself, once more and once more and once more”. The French goalkeeper wondered: “What are we doing to combat racism in football stadiums? Do we really believe it’s effective? […] In the instances, do the people who decide know what it feels like to hear insults and cries relegating us to the rank of animals? “.
