Gutty Sereno

Gutty Sereno
Personal information
Full name	Paulo Jorge Fernandes Sereno
Date of birth	24 October 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth	Lisbon, Portugal
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Vilafranquense
Number	10
Youth career
2000–2001	Sporting (loan- Real Sport Clube)
2001–2003	Alverca
2002–2003	→ Benfica (loan)
Senior career*
Years	Team
2003–2004	Alcains
2004–2006	Abrantes
2006–2007	Kavala
2007–2009	União da Madeira
2009–2010	Monsanto
2010	Doxa Katokopias
2010–2011	Hibernians
2011	Monsanto
2011–2012	Oriental
2012–2013	Torreense
2013	Atlético
2013	BSV Schwarz-Weiß Rehden
2014	TB Uphusen
2015–2018	Vilafranquense
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 April 2017

Paulo Jorge Fernandes Sereno (born 24 October 1983), known as Gutty Sereno, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Vilafranquense as a midfielder.

Career

Youth and Early Career in Portugal

He comes from the youth team of Sporting Lisbon, where he played until the summer of 1999. After that, he moved to the U-19 team of FC Alverca, from which he was loaned out in July 2000 to the U-19 team of Real SC. After returning to Alverca, he played there until August 2002, and was then loaned out again, this time to the B team of Benfica Lissabon. At the end of this loan, he left the club and moved to the lower-league team CD Alcains. He played there in the 2003/04 season, after which he joined União Madeira. His time there lasted only one season, after which he moved to a new club, Abrantes FC.

Stints at Foreign First Division Clubs

A season later, he left Portugal for the first time and joined the Greek club AO Kavala. However, he stayed there only until the end of the season, then returned to Madeira, where he had previously spent a season. He continued in Portugal with GDR Monsanto, playing in the Portuguese third division.

In early 2010, he left his home country again to join the Cypriot first division club Doxa Katokopias, making his league debut on 6 February in a 3-0 away loss against Anorthosis Famagusta. He only made two more appearances by the end of the season. For the 2010/11 season, he moved to Malta to play for Hibernians FC. His first appearance in the Maltese Premier League was in a 1-1 draw against FC Floriana on 4 December 2010. He made only two more appearances by the end of the season.

The next year, he returned to Monsanto until the end of the season. The following season, he joined Clube Oriental de Lisboa, where he played for one season. He spent the first half of the 2012/13 season with SC União Torreense and moved to the then second division club Atlético CP for the second half. He made his debut in a Portuguese professional league in a 0-0 draw at Sporting Lisbon B. After the 2012/13 season, Atlético was relegated and Sereno left the club.

Time in Germany and End of Career

In the summer, he moved to Germany for the first time, joining BSV Schwarz-Weiß Rehden in the Regionalliga Nord. His first appearance was in a 1-1 draw at home against Hannover 96 II, where he was substituted in the 89th minute. He made only three more appearances by the end of the year. On 27 January 2014, he moved within Lower Saxony to the Oberliga team TB Uphusen. He made nine appearances by the end of the season. His first appearance in the Oberliga, as a substitute in the second half, was in a 2-1 loss at 1. FC Wunstorf. In the 2014/15 season, he made nine more appearances before returning to Portugal in January 2015 to end his career.

He played for UD Vilafranquense until the end of the 2017/18 season and then retired.

References

External links

Gutty Sereno at ForaDeJogo (archived)