Rayane Bounida (3 March 2006) is a Belgian-Moroccan footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for the youth of Dutch team AFC Ajax. He has been touted as the next big thing since 2014, despite not having played a professional game yet. At the time of his 16th birthday, he had a contract with Nike and more than 420,000 followers on Instagram.
Bounida played with the youth teams of Anderlecht, and regularly was featured in international media as the new big talent from a very young age. On his sixteenth birthday it was announced that he would sign a professional contract with Dutch team Ajax, for a rumoured €700,000 per year. Many major European teams were interested in signing the young player, including Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain.
Bounida has played for the Belgium U16 national team team, scoring 4 goals in 16 matches, and for the Belgium U17, scoring 1 goal in 7 matches.
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Living people
2006 births
Belgian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
R.S.C. Anderlecht players
AFC Ajax players
Belgian expatriate men's footballers
Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
