Mauricio Serna

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Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football biography Mauricio Alberto "Chicho" Serna Valencia (born 22 January 1968) is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

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 also appeared 51 times for the Colombia national team between 1993 and 2001.[1]

Career

Serna was born in Medellín. 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 the Colombia national team and was a participant at the 1994 and 1998 FIFA World Cups.

After retirement

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 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

References

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  1. ↑ rsssf: Colombia record international footballers Template:Webarchive
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  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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