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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mauricio Alberto Serna Valencia | ||
| Date of birth | (1968-01-22)22 January 1968 (age 58) | ||
| Place of birth | Medellín, Colombia | ||
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Boca Juniors II (interim manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (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 professionalfootballer who played as amidfielder.
Serna played for a number of clubs, includingDeportivo Pereira,Atlético Nacional,Boca Juniors (Argentina),Puebla F.C. (Mexico),Chacarita Juniors (Argentina) andTalleres Córdoba (Argentina). He also appeared 51 times for theColombia national team between 1993 and 2001.[1]
Serna was born inMedellín. At Boca, he played 96 league games, amounting to a total of 123 in all competitions, and also served as captain.[2]
Serna played for theColombia national team and was a participant at the1994 and1998 FIFA World Cups.
In February 2021, Serna accepted a position at Boca's youth department.[3]
On 17 August 2021, Boca's reserve team manager,Sebastián Battaglia, was appointed first team manager on interim basis, while Serna andHugo Ibarra took charge of the reserve team, also on interim basis.[4]
On 5 May 2015, he was publicly accused on theSéptimo día television program in his native Colombia 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 inBuenos Aires linked him to the crimes ofdrug trafficking andmoney laundering in Argentina for a figure close to three million dollars.[6] In 2019, he was again 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 withPablo Escobar's widow and son through real estate deals inArgentina andPanama.[7]
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