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ROME (AP) — Napoli’s gamers took a knee earlier than their Serie A recreation towards Atalanta on Saturday in a public present of help for teammate Juan Jesus.
It got here after a sports activities decide dominated that Inter Milan defender Francesco Acerbi is not going to face sanctions for allegedly racially abusing Jesus, who’s Black, in a Serie A match as a result of there wasn’t sufficient proof.
The alleged incident on March 17 was revealed when Jesus instructed the referee that Acerbi directed a racial slur at him. Acerbi has repeatedly denied he used the offensive phrase.
An Italian league sporting decide stated this week that, whereas it was clear Acerbi had insulted Jesus, the “minimal degree of affordable certainty” had not been reached that it was of a racial nature.
Napoli referred to as the choice “astonishing.”
Atalanta received Saturday’s recreation 3-0.
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