Role
Former Italian soccer player, Italian champion, technical commentator, and television commentator. University professor of women's soccer and communications.
Bio
Katia Serra is a prominent figure in Italian and European football , with a career spanning the top Italian leagues and Spain. Her list of achievements includes one Scudetto, three Coppa Italia titles, one Supercoppa Italiana, and 25 caps for the national team. After graduating in Sports Science , she earned her UEFA A coaching qualification and her Sporting Director's license with a first-class honors score, the first woman in Italy to achieve this.
In the management and union sphere, she served as a FIGC councilor, the first councilor of the AIC (Italian Footballers' Association), and the first head of the Women's Sector (2013-2020), long promoting concrete sports policies aimed at ensuring rights, protection, and the achievement of professionalism for female footballers. She has distinguished herself for her unwavering commitment to gender equality in sports institutions.
A pioneer of female television commentary, since 2010 she has been the first female technical voice to commentate Serie A matches, international championships and major events for Rai (including the final of the men's European Championship at Wembley in 2021) and for Radio Rai at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Author of the book "Una vita in fuorigioco" (2023), she is a university professor in the fields of women's football and sports communication at the San Raffaele Telematic University and the Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna.