Juventus must play Sunday’s Serie A match against Atalanta behind closed doors as punishment for a recent outbreak of racist chanting, the Italian league authorities said Friday.
The decision backed up Thursday’s legal ruling by the Italian Olympic Committee which rejected a Juve appeal against punishment to an outbreak of racist chanting against Inter Milan’s star of Ghanaian origin, Mario Balotelli, during an April 18 match.
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