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 Louisiana 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.
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. On 23 July 2015 Bounou returned to the Aragonese side, again in a one-year loan deal.
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.