Mauricio Serna

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Mauricio Serna
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Personal information
Full name Mauricio Alberto Serna Valencia
Date of birth (1968-01-22) 22 January 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth Medellín, Colombia
Height 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Boca Juniors II (interim manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1990 Deportivo Pereira 39 (5)
1991–1997 Atlético Nacional
1997–2002 Boca Juniors 91 (2)
2002–2003 Puebla 96 (0)
2004 Chacarita Juniors 10 (0)
2004 Talleres de Córdoba 18 (0)
2005 Atlético Nacional
International career
1993–2001 Colombia 51 (2)
Managerial career
2021– Boca Juniors II (interim)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mauricio Alberto "Chicho" Serna Valencia (born 22 January 1968) is a Colombian former professional footballer who played 51 games for the Colombia national team between 1993 and 2001 [1]

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Chicho Serna played for a number of clubs, including Deportivo Pereira, Atlético Nacional, Boca Juniors (Argentina), Puebla F.C. (Mexico), Chacarita Juniors (Argentina) and Talleres Córdoba (Argentina). He was often cheered by Boca's fans with "Chicho, Chicho, Chicho. Huevo, Huevo, Huevo", referring to his compelling style of play.

Career

Serna was born in Medellín. At Boca, he played 96 league games, scoring two goals. He played a total of 123 games for the club in all competitions. [2]

Serna played for the Colombia national team and was a participant at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

After retirement

In February 2021, Serna was hired in a role at Boca Juniors, as a link between the Soccer Council and the coaches of the clubs youth department. [3]

On 17 August 2021, Boca's reserve team manager, Sebastián Battaglia, was appointed first team manager on interim basis, while Serna and Hugo Ibarra took charge of the reserve team, also on interim basis. [4]

Personal life

On 5 May 2015, he was publicly accused in his native Colombia on the Séptimo día television program, of defrauding an innumerable number of young soccer players with the promise that they had been signed by Argentine clubs, making them travel to the country asking them in advance a commission for the supposed signings. [5]

On 5 June 2018, a court in Buenos Aires linked him to the crimes of drug trafficking and money laundering in Argentina for a figure close to three million dollars. [6]

Also in 2019, he was accused before a United States court by the drug trafficker José Bayron Piedrahíta, better known by his aliases of (El Árabe or El Patrón de Caucasia ); of having committed the crime of money laundering together with Pablo Escobar's widow and son through real estate deals in Argentina and Panama. [7]

Honours

Atlético Nacional

Boca Juniors

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References

  1. ↑ rsssf: Colombia record international footballers Archived 30 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Serna, Mauricio Alberto". Historiadeboca.com.ar. Retrieved 1 November 2010.
  3. ↑ El ‘chicho‘ Serna vuelve a Boca Juniors, equipo donde brilló como jugador, infobae.com, 25 February 2021
  4. ↑ Sebastián Battaglia es el nuevo director técnico de Boca y en su reemplazo en Reserva asumirá la dupla conformada por Hugo Ibarra y Chicho Serna, tntsports.com.ar, 17 August 2021
  5. ↑ Mauricio "Chicho" Serna habría estafado a jóvenes promesas del fútbol, comutricolor.com, 5 May 2015
  6. ↑ La banda del “Café de los Angelitos” - Procesan a “Chicho” Serna y a la viuda y al hijo de Pablo Escobar por lavado de dinero narco, clarin.com, 5 June 2018
  7. ↑ El señalado narcotraficante que habló y tiene en problemas al Chicho, futbolred.com, 9 June 2019
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