Yassine Bounou
 Bounou with Wydad Casablanca in 2012 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Yassine Bounou | ||
| Date of birth | 5 April 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Montreal, Canada | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Girona | ||
| Number | 13 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1999–2010 | Wydad Casablanca | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2010–2012 | Wydad Casablanca | 8 | (0) |
| 2012–2014 | Atlético Madrid B | 47 | (0) |
| 2014–2016 | Atlético Madrid | 0 | (0) |
| 2014–2016 | → Zaragoza (loan) | 38 | (0) |
| 2016– | Girona | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2011–2012 | Morocco U20 | 4 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Morocco U23 | 4 | (0) |
| 2012– | Morocco | 5 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 July 2016. | |||
Yassine Bounou (Arabic: ياسين بونو; born 5 April 1991), also known as Bono, is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Girona FC as a goalkeeper.
Club career
Born in Montreal, Canada, Bounou moved to Morocco at early age, and made his senior debuts with Wydad Casablanca in 2011, after being promoted to the first-team a year earlier. On 14 June 2012 he moved to La Liga's giants Atlético Madrid, being initially assigned to the reserves in Segunda División B.[1]
Bounou appeared regularly for the B-team in the third level, and signed a new four-year deal on 31 May 2013.[2] In the 2014 summer, after profitting from Thibaut Courtois and Daniel Aranzubia's departures, he was definitely promoted to the main squad.
Bounou made his first-team debut on 24 July 2014, in a 1–0 pre-season friendly win against CD Numancia.[3] On 1 September he was loaned to Segunda División's Real Zaragoza, in a season-long deal.[4] Kept out by Óscar Whalley for the first half of the campaign, he made his debut the following 11 January in a 5–3 loss at UD Las Palmas, and finished the season with 16 appearances. In the play-offs,[5] after Whalley's performance led to a 0–3 home loss to Girona FC in the first leg, Bounou replaced him in the second for a 4–1 win and advancement on away goals;[6] Zaragoza lost the final by the same rule to UD Las Palmas.
On 23 July 2015 Bounou returned to the Aragonese side, again in a one-year loan deal.[7] On 12 July of the following year, he signed a permanent two-year contract with fellow league team Girona FC.[8]
International career
Bounou was eligible to represent Canada or Morocco,[9] but opted to represent the latter, appearing with the under-20 team at the 2012 Toulon Tournament, playing in one match during the competition. He was also selected in the 18-man under-23 squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics, but acted as a backup to Mohamed Amsif during the tournament, in which Morocco were eliminated at the group stage.
On 14 August 2013 Bounou was called up to the main squad for a friendly match against Burkina Faso.[10] He made his debut in the following day, playing the entire second-half of an eventual 1–2 defeat in Tangier.[11]
References
- ↑ El Atlético de Madrid ficha al internacional marroquí Yassine Bounou para su filial (Atlético Madrid signs Moroccan international Yassine Bounou to their reserve squad); Goal.com, 14 June 2012 (Spanish)
- ↑ Bono renueva por el cuadro colchonero hasta 2017 (Bono renews for the colchoneros until 2017); Mundo Deportivo, 31 May 2013 (Spanish)
- ↑ Siqueira: "I’m happy to have made my debut with Atlético"; Atlético Madrid, 24 July 2014
- ↑ Acuerdo con el Real Zaragoza para la cesión de Bounou (Agreement with Real Zaragoza for the loan of Bounou); Atlético Madrid, 1 September 2014 (Spanish)
- ↑ Ferrer, Pedro Luis (11 June 2015). "El Girona sentencia en la noche negra de Óscar Whalley" [Girona sentence Óscar Whalley's black night] (in Spanish). Diario AS. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ↑ Moya, Ángel (14 June 2015). "Zaragoza obra el milagro" [Zaragoza work a miracle] (in Spanish). Marca. Retrieved 21 March 2016.
- ↑ El guardameta Bounou jugará una temporada más en el Real Zaragoza (Goalkeeper Bounou will play a further season at Real Zaragoza); Real Zaragoza, 23 July 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ El Girona FC completa la porteria amb el fitxatge de Bono (Girona FC complete the goal with the signing of Bono); Girona FC, 12 July 2016 (Spanish)
- ↑ أتليتيكو مدريد يعير الحارس المغربي ياسين بونو لسرقسطة (Atlético Madrid loans Moroccan goalkeeper Bounou to Zaragoza); Tanger Inter, 31 August 2014 (Arabic)
- ↑ Match Maroc - Burkina Faso Aujourd’hui (Match Morocco – Burkina Faso today); Bladi, 14 August 2013 (French)
- ↑ Maroc – Burkina: Les Etalons triomphent à Tanger (Morocco – Burkina: The Etalons triumph in Tangier); Le Faso, 15 August 2013 (French)
External links
- Yassine Bounou profile at BDFutbol
- Yassine Bounou at National-Football-Teams.com
- Yassine Bounou profile at Soccerway
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