External links
- Mark Sertori at Soccerbase
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mark Anthony Sertori [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 1 September 1967 [1] | ||
| Place of birth | Manchester, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender, striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| ?–1987 | East Manchester | ||
| 1987 | Stockport County | 4 | (0) |
| 1987–1990 | Lincoln City | 78 | (15) |
| 1990–1994 | Wrexham | 110 | (3) |
| 1994–1996 | Bury | 13 | (1) |
| 1996 | → Witton Albion (loan) | ||
| 1996–1998 | Scunthorpe United | 83 | (2) |
| 1998–1999 | Halifax Town | 45 | (0) |
| 1999–2001 | York City | 66 | (2) |
| 2001 | Shrewsbury Town | 1 | (0) |
| 2001 | Cheltenham Town | 10 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | Altrincham | ||
| 2002–2003 | Accrington Stanley | ||
| 2003 | Hyde United | 11 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Mark Anthony Sertori (born 1 September 1967) is an English former footballer. He played for numerous clubs in the lower divisions of the Football League, initially as a striker before moving to centre-back. He now works as a sports masseur for Roma. [2]
Born in Manchester, Lancashire, Sertori played for East Manchester before signing for Stockport County in February 1987. [1] He made four league appearances before signing for Football Conference side Lincoln City in 1987, who he made his debut for in a 4–2 defeat at Barnet on 22 August. [1] [3] He finished the 1987–88 season with 28 league appearances and six goals as Lincoln won the Conference championship. [4]
He moved to York City in September 1999 for a fee of £25,000 with Sertori agreeing a two-year contract. [5] [6] In March 2001, he had three clubs in a week. He departed York for Shrewsbury Town, making a single substitute appearance, before joining Cheltenham Town. [7]
He dropped into non-League football in the summer of 2001, joining Altrincham. In November 2001 he captained a Northern Premier League representative XI against an FA representative XI. [8] In July 2002 he signed for Accrington Stanley before moving on to Hyde United in January 2003. [9] [10] He retired at the end of the season to concentrate on his new career as a sports masseur.
At the tail-end of his professional career, Sertori enrolled on a Professional Footballers' Association-funded course at Cardiff, where he graduated as a masseur as well as qualifying in reflexology and aromatherapy. [11] In 2003, he joined Bolton Wanderers as Sports Therapist and Masseur. He followed Sam Allardyce to Newcastle United whilst maintaining a private practice in Stockport. [12] He is masseur at Manchester City.
An Italian speaker, Sertori replaced the long-serving Chelsea masseur Billy McCulloch as a masseur for the England team under Fabio Capello, [13] [14] being one of three masseurs in England's 17-man technical staff for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. [15] His role with England continued and he was part of the England 2016 European Championship backroom staff. [16]
