Juve to play game behind closed doors

MILAN: Juventus will have to play their next home Serie A game behind closed doors after fans racially abused Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli in Saturday's 1-1 draw, the Italian league said on Monday.

The 18-year-old scored Inter's opener in the top-of-the-table clash and was subjected to chants of "a black Italian does not exist" from sections of the Juve crowd in Turin.

Balotelli, an Italy under-21 international, was born in Palermo but is of Ghanaian descent.