An Italian women's soccer team posted an image of one of its players making a racist gesture against Asian people

• Juventus FC Women's twitter account posted a player making a racist gesture towards Asian people.
• The photo has since been deleted from twitter.
• The team apologized and said it was, "not meant to cause controversy or have any racial undertones."

The official Twitter account for a professional Italian women's soccer team posted a photo of a player making a racist gesture towards Asian people on Thursday.

The photo - posted by Juventus FC Women - featured the player wearing a training cone on her head and pulling her eyes with her fingers to make them look slanted, with a matching caption of emojis. The post was deleted after an immediate backlash on social media.

Less than an hour after the tweet, Juventus Women's Twitter account posted a statement apologizing for the post, claiming it was "not meant to cause controversy or have any racial undertones."

-Juventus Women (@JuventusFCWomen) August 5, 2021

Insider reached out to Juventus FC for comment.

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