Ousseni Bouda

Ousseni Bouda (born April 28, 2000) is a Burkinabé footballer who plays college soccer for Stanford University. Bouda previously played for Black Rock FC in USL League Two. He led the Millbrook School Mustangs Varsity team for his four years of high school.

Ousseni Bouda
Personal information
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 20 (5)
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 November 6, 2019

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]

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
  1. "Gatorade® National Boys Soccer Player Of The Year: Ousseni Bouda" (PDF). playeroftheyear.gatorade.com. Gatorade. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  2. Sigal, Jonathan (November 20, 2018). "Ousseni Bouda powers Millbrook to Class C championship". New England Soccer Journal. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  3. Gatorade (June 6, 2018). "Gatorade® National Boys Soccer Player Of The Year: Ousseni Bouda". PR Newswire. Cision. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  4. "Ousseni Bouda named Gatorade National Boys Soccer Player of the Year". Soccerwire.com. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  5. "Ousseni Bouda - Top Drawer Soccer". TopDrawer Soccer. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  6. Hall, Brendan (August 13, 2018). "Class of 19: The 19 Names to know for the upcoming school year". USA Today. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  7. Eskilson, J. R. (June 7, 2018). "Ousseni Bouda's legendary course". TopDrawer Soccer. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  8. "Bouda wins first Pac-12 Player of the Week Honor". Pac-12.
  9. "Pac-12 announces men's soccer All-Conference honors". Pac-12. November 20, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.


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