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Lionel Messi leaving Barca isn’t the only big trending soccer news today.
On Thursday afternoon the Juventus FC Women’s Twitter account bizarrely posted a photo of a player wearing a training cone and making a slant-eye gesture that was immediately deemed racist. Despite the criticism from fans on Twitter, it took Juventus nearly half an hour to delete the tweet.
Deleted 25 minutes too late#juventus pic.twitter.com/V3o63YL5zy
— Kappazeta (@kappazeta_) August 5, 2021
Juventus FC Women”s Twiter account went on to apologize for offending anyone while stating the tweet did not have any racial undertones.
https://twitter.com/JuventusFCWomen/status/1423370664778600450
The apology didn’t go over too well considering the picture clearly had racial undertones.
what the heck was this supposed to convey? pic.twitter.com/ZN5vOk2PFe
— Lys 🫶🏽✨ (@lyssah_a) August 5, 2021
The photographer took the photo.
The athlete posed for the photo.
Someone coordinated that pose.
The social team posted with that caption.
HOW IS IT THAT SO MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT THIS WAS OK?!
And on top of it all, a half-assed apology. https://t.co/bEfaJ2KLqs
— Nicole 💙 (@NicoleBansen) August 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/_winniehuang/status/1423375884967366657
okay juventus women may have posted the most racist shit ever but look at the hashtag they used here. idk I think we should let this one go guys https://t.co/Fo2lVXcLls
— manny (@mannyfidel) August 5, 2021
"was not meant to have any racial undertones"
this is literally the most overused racist depiction of Asians ever
bro, WHAT https://t.co/9rQn52BTsY pic.twitter.com/Gih2AMo3ly— Maxwell (@maqwelll) August 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/jameskleimann/status/1423380173580378117
https://twitter.com/BenHoffmanNYT/status/1423380128126603268
https://twitter.com/DorkyCharl/status/1423372066049380354