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Fran Serrano

Spanish association football player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ20641460
Source-derived summary

Francisco 'Fran' José Serrano Santos (born 20 April 1995) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Linense as a central defender.

Club career

Born in Córdoba, Andalusia, Serrano was a youth product of local Córdoba CF. He made his debuts as a senior with the reserves, representing the side in both Segunda División B and Tercera División.

Serrano made his first team – and La Liga – debut on 17 May 2015, coming on as a late substitute for Rene Krhin in a 1–2 home loss against Rayo Vallecano. He was handed his first start six days later, playing the full 90 minutes in a 0–3 away loss against SD Eibar.

On 10 July 2017 Serrano moved to another reserve team, Granada CF B in the third division.

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“Fran Serrano” enters the record as spanish association football player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fran, Serrano and Spanish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2015, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fran, Serrano and Spanish.
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“Fran Serrano” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fran, Serrano and Spanish provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20641460. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2015 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from Fran Serrano” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.