Mark Sertori

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Mark Sertori
Personal information
Full name Mark Anthony Sertori [1]
Date of birth (1967-09-01) 1 September 1967 (age 56) [1]
Place of birth Manchester, England
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Position(s) Defender, striker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
000?–1987 East Manchester ? (?)
1987 Stockport County 4 (0)
1987–1990 Lincoln City 78 (15)
1990–1994 Wrexham 110 (3)
1994–1996 Bury 13 (1)
1996Witton 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 Manchester City. [2]

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Career

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.

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 currently masseur at Manchester City.

England masseur

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]

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