Matteo Serafini


Matteo Serafini is an Italian football coach and a former player who played as a midfielder.

Football career

Serafini started his career at Cremonese, instead of Brescia. He played his first professional season for the club in Serie C1 1997-98, and brought the club back to Serie B in just one year in summer 1998. But the club relegated again in summer 1999, and the following season saw Cremonese fall to Serie C2 in summer 2000.
In summer 2001, he joined Livorno of Serie C1. He won promotion with the club, but his just played one game in first half of 2002/03 season, before moved to Arezzo of Serie C1.
On 8 June 2004, he finally tasted top division football by signed by A.C. Siena, he made his Serie A debut against Palermo on 12 September 2004.
He made 6 more appearances before on loan to Catania and Empoli.
On 7 August 2006, he joined Brescia. Here he made his biggest football career success - on 10 March 2007 he scored a spectacular hat-trick in the match between Brescia and Juventus Turin during the season which Juventus was in Serie B: The three goals, all in the first half of the game, were the result of a lob from 40 meters, a bicycle kick, and a precise powerful shot from 30 meters, against the World Cup winner goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.
On 4 July 2007, he joined Vicenza.
In 2009, he joined Aurora Pro Patria 1919

Coaching career

After retiring at the end of the 2018–19 season, Serafini was hired as manager of AC Calvina Sport. He was fired by Calvina on 7 October 2019.