A happy 60th to Renato today!
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From the Blueseum:
Career: 1977 – 1978
Debut: Round 16, 1977 vs South Melbourne, aged 24 years, 102 days
Carlton Player No. 869
Games: 7
Goals: 6
Last game: Round 4, 1978 vs Essendon, aged 25 years, 35 days
Guernsey No. 23
Height: 188cm
Weight: 86kg
DOB: 18 March, 1953
Wearing guernsey 23, Serafini played 7 games and kicked 6 goals for Carlton after debuting in Season 1977.
He is listed as being 188cm tall. He may be better remembered as a Lion, having spent considerable time with Fitzroy. Serafini played from 1971 until midway through 1977 with the Lions, in his time with them he played 81 games and booted 117 goals.
Serafini was originally recruited from Assumption College, Kilmore.
Serafini and the Blues departed company at the end of the 1978 season. In 1979, he headed to VFA club Frankston and in his first year at the club, he kicked 95 goals and was the competition runner-up in the goalkicking award that year. Serafini then transferred to rival VFA club Coburg for the 1983 season.