Ousseni Bouda
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ousseni Bouda | ||
Date of birth | 2000 (age 20–21) | ||
Place of birth | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | ||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Stanford Cardinal | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
2012–2015 | Right To Dream Academy | ||
2015–2018 | Millbrook Mustangs | ||
2015–2019 | Black Rock FC | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019– | Stanford Cardinal | 28 | (7) |
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019 | Black Rock FC | 5 | (8) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 20, 2021 |
Ousseni Bouda (born April 28, 2000) is a Burkinabé footballer who plays college soccer for Stanford University. Bouda was the 2018 recipient of Gatorade Player of the Year award for boys' soccer. The award is a nationally recognized honor given to the best high school athlete in the United States.
Career[]
Born in Burkina Faso, Ousseni Bouda moved to the Millbrook School in New York After having spent 4 years at the Right To Dream Academy in Ghana. Bouda would help the Millbrook Mustangs win three straight New York Class C State championships.[2] He was honored with the Gatorade National Soccer Player of the Year, a national award given to the best boy's high school soccer player.[3][4] Bouda finished his high school career making 82 appearances for the Mustangs, scoring 156 goals. His last two high school games, Bouda scored 5 goals in each game leading the Mustangs to win the championship.
Listed as five-star recruit by Top Drawer Soccer,[5] Bouda is committed to playing college soccer for the Stanford Cardinal men's soccer program beginning in the 2019 NCAA Division I men's soccer season.[6] He is the first Stanford soccer player to win the Gatorade High School Player of the Year Award.[7]
On August 30, 2019, Bouda made his collegiate debut for Stanford, in a 5–0 win against Penn State. In the same match, Bouda made his first college start and scored his first college goal. On October 15, 2019 Bouda earned the Pac-12 Men's Soccer Player of the Week, being the first freshman of the season to earn the honor.[8]
On November 20, 2019, concluding the 2019 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season, Bouda was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.[9] Bouda sat out the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
International career[]
- Summer 2019 : Called to Burkina Faso U-20 National Team
Honors[]
Individual[]
- Pac-12 Freshman of the Year: 2019
- Pac- 12 Player of the Week (Oct. 15)
- Gatorade High School Player of the Year: 2019
- Top Drawer Soccer Best XI Freshman First Team
- College Soccer News All - Freshman First Team
- United Soccer Coaches All - Far West Region
- High School All American: 2018-2019
- United Soccer Coaches All American: 2018-2019
- New England Soccer Journal Player of the year: 2018-2019
- USA TODAY - ALL AMERICAN boys soccer player of the year: 2018-2019
References[]
- ^ "Gatorade® National Boys Soccer Player Of The Year: Ousseni Bouda" (PDF). playeroftheyear.gatorade.com. Gatorade. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
- ^ Sigal, Jonathan (November 20, 2018). "Ousseni Bouda powers Millbrook to Class C championship". New England Soccer Journal. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^ Gatorade (June 6, 2018). "Gatorade® National Boys Soccer Player Of The Year: Ousseni Bouda". PR Newswire. Cision. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^ "Ousseni Bouda named Gatorade National Boys Soccer Player of the Year". Soccerwire.com. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^ "Ousseni Bouda - Top Drawer Soccer". TopDrawer Soccer. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^ Hall, Brendan (August 13, 2018). "Class of 19: The 19 Names to know for the upcoming school year". USA Today. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^ Eskilson, J. R. (June 7, 2018). "Ousseni Bouda's legendary course". TopDrawer Soccer. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^ "Bouda wins first Pac-12 Player of the Week Honor". Pac-12.
- ^ "Pac-12 announces men's soccer All-Conference honors". Pac-12. November 20, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
External links[]
- Ousseni Bouda at Stanford Athletics
- Ousseni Bouda on Instagram
- Ousseni Bouda on Twitter
- USL League Two profile
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Association football midfielders
- Burkinabé footballers
- Burkinabé expatriate footballers
- Burkinabé expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States
- People from Dutchess County, New York
- Soccer players from New York (state)
- Sportspeople from the New York metropolitan area
- Sportspeople from Ouagadougou
- Stanford Cardinal men's soccer players
- USL League Two players
- 21st-century Burkinabé people
- Burkinabé football biography stubs