Mauricio Serna

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.

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.

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.

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.

Personal life On 5 May 2015, he was publicly accused on the Séptimo 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.

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. 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 with Pablo Escobar's widow and son through real estate deals in Argentina and Panama.

Honours Atlético Nacional Categoría Primera A: 1994

Boca Juniors Argentine Primera División: Apertura 1998, Clausura 1999, Apertura 2000 Copa Libertadores: 2000, 2001 Copa Intercontinental: 2000