{"id":2905,"date":"2023-11-27T08:32:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/record-super-cup-win-for-juventus-amid-backdrop-of-controversy\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T08:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:32:05","slug":"record-super-cup-win-for-juventus-amid-backdrop-of-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/record-super-cup-win-for-juventus-amid-backdrop-of-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Record Super Cup win for Juventus amid backdrop of controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n        Juventus secured a record winning title in the Italian Super Cup on Wednesday evening amid a backdrop of controversy over where the final match was held\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-halfpage u-show-for-small-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-180x22-grey-6.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Juventus secured its eighth Italian Super Cup title on Wednesday after winning the competition&#8217;s final match 1-0 against AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>The winning, and only, goal of the match was scored by Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this being a record win for Juventus, and Ronaldo&#8217;s first trophy with the team, the match was held amid a backdrop of controversy due its location in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Italian politicians first criticised the planned location back in October after the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Luca Lotti, Italy&#8217;s former minister for sport, called on the Italian government to reconsider holding the Super Cup final in Saudi Arabia, saying it should be &#8220;immediately blocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The terrifying news of the hideous death of journalist Khashoggi leaves me&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2019\/01\/17\/record-super-cup-win-for-juventus-amid-backdrop-of-controversy\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus secured a record winning title in the Italian Super Cup on Wednesday evening amid a backdrop of controversy over where the final match was held ADVERTISEMENT Juventus secured its eighth Italian Super Cup title on Wednesday after winning the competition&#8217;s final match 1-0 against AC Milan. The winning, and only, goal of the match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}