Uefa warn Juventus over targeting Man Citys Balotelli with racist abuse

UEFA chiefs have warned Juventus they will take tough action if their fans target Manchester City 's new signing Mario Balotelli with racist abuse again, reports the Manchester Evening News.The Italian club were ordered to play a match behind closed doors last year after fans racially abused the striker during a Serie A game against his former club Inter Milan .UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino said: "They know that our disciplinary bodies are watching. There will be sanctions if racism is used."UEFA have a zero tolerance to racism. No one is getting away with anything do to with racism."Racist abuse of Balotelli in Italy surfaced after the striker, who is of Ghanaian descent, was selected for the national team and prompted the fan ban by an Italian judge. Juventus chief executive Jean-Claude Blanc said Balotelli's return would offer fans the chance to prove they had changed.Blanc said: "This will be the chance for the tifosi to demonstrate that the standard has been raised - hopefully fans will behave the way they should be behaving and supporting the team and only this."Supporting your team is to support your team, and not to make remarks of a racist nature toward other players. We will be extremely demanding and intransigent about this." Manchester City 's football administrator Brian Marwood said the club did not anticipate any targeting of Balotelli and that they were looking forward to the clashes with Juve.Marwood said: "I'm sure Mario, like all of our players, will be relishing the opportunity. He's a young man with an incredibly bright future ahead of him and we will give him every support and help that he needs."We will leave it to the authorities to deal with anything that happens but we are not anticipating any issue.
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