Yann Aurel Bisseck stands for the German national team before his debut. The interior defender of Inter Milan was trained at 1st FC Köln.
This day represents a milestone in Yann Aurel Bisseck’s young career. When the DFB announced the contingent for the Nation League quarter-finals against Italy on Thursday, the name of the Cologne native was on the list of squad. The interior defender of Inter Milan may hope for his debut for the A-National team.
With his training association, the 1. FC Köln, you are happy with Bisseck. “This is a nice story for the boy. From the Cologne heart: congratulations on the nomination,” says license area manager Thomas Kessler and is also pleased about the fact that a player from our own academy was nominated for the national team for the first time “.
Many Cologne fans perceive Bisseck’s development with a laughing and a crying eye. After all, FC received only a small seven -digit sum for the soon -to -be national player when he finally left the club in 2022. In the meantime, its market value is estimated at a whopping 30 million euros.
But in turn. Bisseck had already switched to the Geißbockheim when he was six years old, after which all young teams of the FC had gone through. On November 26, 2017, he had secured his place in the club history, and had been in the Bundesliga for the first time in a home game against Hertha BSC at just 16 years. To date, he is the youngest Cologne professional.
At that time, Bisseck was used three times in a row, especially due to acute personnel worries-his only games remained for FC professionals. “I experienced Yann Aurel as a very young guy who took his first steps here. He was certainly not that far in his development,” recalls Kessler, who was a teammate of Bisseck at the time.
The defense talent should be built through game practice, but his borrowings to Holstein Kiel, Roda Kerkrade and Vitoria Guimaraes were all disappointing. “Unfortunately, the loan stations did not work as he and the club had imagined it at the time,” Kessler knows.
Via Denmark to Inter Milan
However, the fourth loan, to the Danish first division club Aarhus, was successful. In 2021, Bisseck quickly conquered a regular place in the there in 2021, so that the Scandinavians pulled their previously agreed purchase option and firmly committed the Cologne in 2022 for a potted 1.5 million euros.
At that time, FC needed every cent, and belief in Bisseck was probably limited. For Aarhus, in turn, the transfer decision in the truest sense of the word was paid. In 2023, the Italian top club Inter Milan transferred more than seven million euros for Bisseck to secure its services.
With the “Nerazzurrri”, the 1.96-meter-Hüne 2024 promptly won the Italian championship. This week, Bisseck and Inter moved to the quarter -finals of the Champions League, where FC Bayern Munich is waiting in April. Before that, however, the first trip to Julian Nagelsmann’s A team is scheduled for the ex-FC talent in all U-national teams. The first leg in the quarter-finals of the Nations League will increase on March 20-fittingly in the Milan Giuseppe-Mazza Stadium.