Matteo Sereni

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Personal information
Matteo Sereni
Full name	Matteo Sereni
Date of birth	February 11, 1975 (age 32)
Place of birth	Parma, Italy
Height	1.8 m
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Treviso
Youth clubs
1993-94	Sampdoria
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-95 1995-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2001 2001-02 2002-03 2003-05 2006	Crevalcore (loan) Sampdoria Piacenza (loan) Empoli (loan) Sampdoria Ipswich Brescia (loan) Lazio Treviso (loan)	0 (0) 10(0) 34(0) 30(0) 75(0) 24(0) 23(0) 31(0) 7 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Matteo Sereni (born February 11, 1975) is an Italian football goalkeeper, who currently plays for Treviso .

[edit] Club

Born in Parma, he started his career at Sampdoria, and was loaned out to A.C. Crevalcore in 1994. He returned to Sampdoria and only made 10 appearances, before being transferred to Piacenza Calcio in 1997. Here he helped the club avoid relegation to Serie B but in 1998, he transferred to Empoli F.C., where he failed to avoid relegation.

In 1999, he returned to Sampdoria in Serie B, made 75 (out of 76) Serie B appearances. In 2001, UEFA Cup competitor Ipswich Town signed him for €7.5million, the highest transfer fee paid by the club. He failed to avoid relegation with Ipswich and was loaned to Brescia in 2002.[1]

In 2003, he transferred to Lazio, to compete for number one goalkeeper at the club with Angelo Peruzzi. In 2004, he started for the club in both legs of the Coppa Italia final against Juventus and played the matches in 2005 Intertoto Cup, when Lazio went out to Olympique de Marseille in the semi-finals.

In January 2006, he was loaned out to Treviso, with Samir Handanović on loan to Lazio.

[edit] National team

He was selected at the age of 16 for the Italian national under-17 team.
He played for the Italian national under-23 team at the 1997 Mediterranean Games, where Italy were champions.