Yassine Bounou

Yassine Bounou

File:Yassine Bounou.jpg Bounou with Wydad Casablanca in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Yassine Bounou
Date of birth	(1991-04-05) 5 April 1991
Place of birth	Montreal, Canada
Height
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Zaragoza (on loan from Atlético Madrid)
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–	Atlético Madrid	0	(0)
2014–	→ Zaragoza (loan)	38	(0)
International career‡
2011–2012	Morocco U20	4	(0)
2011–2012	Morocco U23	4	(0)
2012–	Morocco	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 July 2016 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18:43, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Yassine Bounou (Arabic: ياسين بونو‎‎; born 5 April 1991), also known as Bono, is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Zaragoza on loan from Atlético Madrid 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.

Bounou appeared regularly for the B-team in the third level, and signed a new four-year deal on 31 May 2013. 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. On 1 September he was loaned to Segunda División's Real Zaragoza, in a season-long deal. 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, 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; 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.

International career

Bounou was eligible to represent Canada or Morocco, 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. He made his debut in the following day, playing the entire second-half of an eventual 1–2 defeat in Tangier.

External links

• Yassine Bounou profile at BDFutbol
• Yassine Bounou at National-Football-Teams.com
• Yassine Bounou at Soccerway