Ousseni Bouda

BIOGRAPHY

Ousseni Bouda was born April 28, 2000 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He is a forward in Major League Soccer.

Ousseni Bouda spent four years at the Right To Dream Academy in Ghana. He then moved to the Millbrook School in New York, and led the Millbrook Mustangs to win three straight championships in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council tournament. 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. Bouda finished his high school career with 82 appearances for the Mustangs, scoring 156 goals. In his last two high school games, Bouda scored five goals in each game leading the Mustangs to win the championship.

Listed as a five-star recruit by Top Drawer Soccer, Bouda played college soccer for the Stanford Cardinal men's soccer program. He was the first Stanford soccer player to win the Gatorade High School Player of the Year Award. 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. On November 20, 2019, concluding the 2019 Pac-12 Conference men's soccer season, Bouda was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.

Bouda sat out the 2020 season due to injury. In the 2021 season, he led Stanford with nine assists and five goals, and was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-Region first team and to the All-Pac-12 first team.

On January 6, 2022, Bouda was announced as one of the eight members of the 2022 Generation Adidas class ahead of the 2022 MLS SuperDraft. Five days later, he was chosen by the San Jose Earthquakes as their first choice and the eighth overall choice in the MLS SuperDraft.