Cecilia Salvai with almond-shaped eyes, social storm and Juve apologizes

Juventus expresses its “deepest apologies for the social post which yesterday was read as racially discriminatory content”. The reference is to the photo, published on the Juventus women’s official Twitter profile, in which the player Cecilia Salvai makes almond-shaped eyes with a cone-shaped hat on her head and a laughing emoticon, reproducing the same image. The Juventus post was relaunched by several sites. The online magazine Tmz, very popular especially in America, published it as “an incredibly racist image of a female player wearing a cone on her head and making a wildly racist gesture”. After the social controversy, Juve already yesterday made mea culpa with a post on twitter and today returned to the story in an official statement in which we read: “Juventus immediately understood that the club had made an unforgivable mistake and this mistake has seriously hurt the feelings of all people who oppose racial discrimination. For this mistake, the club takes full responsibility for the incident and its serious impact. Countering racial discrimination and promoting the common development of multiple cultures are the principles to which Juventus as a club has always adhered and which continues to put into practice “.” Juventus – the note concludes – recognizes this error and the club will do the most profound reflection and a thorough review to prevent similar things from happening again “.