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] Chicho Serna played for a number of clubs, including Deportivo Pereira, Atlético Nacional, Boca Juniors (Argentina), Puebla F.C.

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.

[4] 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.