Walter Bustamante

Walter Bustamante is a retired American soccer midfielder who played professionally in the USISL.

Bustamante attended Long Island University where he was a 1993 First Team All American soccer player and the 1994 Northeast Conference Player of the Year. He holds the school’s career record for assists. In 1995, he played for the Jersey Dragons. In February 1996, the MetroStars selected Bustamante in the sixteenth round (156th overall) of the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft. The MetroStars waived him on March 26, 1996. In 1998 and 1999, he played for the New Jersey Stallions. After his career in soccer, he began teaching a middle school Spanish coarse at Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic School in the year 2016.