Scandal! US national team midfielder McKennie insults all of Italy, and now they want to ban him. What did he do?

American midfielder Weston McKennie, who plays in Italy, has stirred up a real storm by criticizing the local cuisine, sparking such an uproar that some are calling for him to be banned from entering the country.

Details: On the podcast Juventus Talk With Us, McKennie claimed that American cuisine, in his view, is far more diverse than Italian.

Quote: "You don’t have variety—it's pasta, pizza, fish, steak. You know what the problem with Italian cuisine is? It’s fantastic, it’s delicious, it’s a unique food that you prepare very well, but in America, if I go to a burger joint or a steakhouse, and then go to another place ten minutes away, I’m still eating a burger, but it’ll taste completely different.

In Italy, I go to one restaurant, order pasta with pesto, then go to another ten minutes away, order pasta with pesto again—and it’s exactly the same," McKennie commented.

The response came from former Italy national team goalkeeper Emiliano Viviano, who fired back at American cuisine, calling the US the country with the worst gastronomy.

Quote: "They even fry the soles of their shoes. If I were Giorgia Meloni (Italy’s Prime Minister), I wouldn’t let him back into the country!

How can you say there’s no variety in Italian cuisine? Even his definition of 'variety' annoys me. McKennie, there are 200 million of you Americans, and all you eat is hamburgers," Viviano said.

Reminder: Juventus winger and US national team player Timothy Weah witnessed Donald Trump discuss the war between Israel and Iran behind his back. Weah summed up what he heard in brief: he’s not interested in any of that, he just wants to play football.